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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827940203321

Autore

Zigon Jarrett

Titolo

HIV is God's blessing [[electronic resource] ] : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia / / Jarrett Zigon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613291790

1-283-29179-7

0-520-94832-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Classificazione

11.05

Disciplina

303.3/72094709051

Soggetti

Church and social problems - Russia (Federation)

Social values - Russia (Federation)

Drug addicts - Rehabilitation - Russia (Federation)

AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Orthodox Eastern Church

HIV infections - Prevention - Religious aspects - Orthodox Eastern Church

Russia (Federation) Moral conditions

Russia (Federation) Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

HIV, drug use, and the politics of indifference -- The Church's rehabilitation program -- The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and injecting drug use -- Moral and ethical assemblages -- Synergeia and simfoniia: orthodox morality, human rights, and the state -- Working on the self -- Enchurchment -- Cultivating a normal life -- Normal sociality: obshchenie and controlling emotions -- Disciplining responsibility: labor and gender.

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world-80 percent from intravenous drug use-and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions-



of morality, ethics, what constitutes a "normal" life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church ultimately opposes.