HIV is God's blessing : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia /

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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. Jarret...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zigon, Jarrett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia (Federation)
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ.
Orthodox Eastern Church
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ
2000-2099
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.
Social values.
Eastern Orthodoxy
HIV Infections > prevention & control
Morals
Social Values
Substance-Related Disorders > rehabilitation
Église et problèmes sociaux > Russie.
Valeurs sociales > Russie.
Toxicomanes > Réadaptation > Russie.
Sida > Aspect religieux > Église orthodoxe.
Infections à VIH > Prévention > Aspect religieux > Église orthodoxe.
Valeurs sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Moral conditions
HIV infections > Prevention > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church
Church and social problems
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation
Social conditions
Social values
Russia (Federation) > Moral conditions.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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