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Autore: | Zigon Jarrett |
Titolo: | HIV is God's blessing [[electronic resource] ] : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia / / Jarrett Zigon |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.3/72094709051 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Russia (Federation) Moral conditions |
Russia (Federation) Social conditions 21st century | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | HIV is God's blessing |
ISBN: | 9786613291790 |
1-283-29179-7 | |
0-520-94832-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463114403321 |
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