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

• Autore: Zigon Jarrett
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II