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UNINA9910827940203321 |
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Autore |
Zigon Jarrett |
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Titolo |
HIV is God's blessing [[electronic resource] ] : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia / / Jarrett Zigon |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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9786613291790 |
1-283-29179-7 |
0-520-94832-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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- |
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