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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zigon, Jarrett
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Russia (Federation) > Moral conditions.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Church and social problems > Russia (Federation)
Social values > Russia (Federation)
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > Russia (Federation)
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church.
Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia (Federation)
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.