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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I BACKGROUNDS; 1. HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference; 2. The Church's Rehabilitation Program; 3. The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use; 4. Moral and Ethical Assemblages; 5. Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State; 6. Working on the Self; PART II PRACTICES; 7. Enchurchment; 8. Cultivating a Normal Life; 9. Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions; 10. Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender; Some Closing Words; Notes; References. |
| Summary |
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 betw. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Russia (Federation)
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Orthodox Eastern Church. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ.
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. |
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Church and social problems -- Russia (Federation)
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Church and social problems. |
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Social values -- Russia (Federation)
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Social values. |
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Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- Russia (Federation)
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Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation. |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church. |
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HIV infections -- Prevention -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church.
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HIV infections -- Prevention -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
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21st century |
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Eastern Orthodoxy. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation. |
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HIV Infections -- prevention & control. |
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Social Values. |
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Morals. |
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Russia. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zigon, Jarrett. "HIV is God's Blessing" : Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520267626 |
| ISBN |
9780520948327 (electronic book) |
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0520948327 (electronic book) |
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9780520267626 |
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0520267621 |
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9780520267640 |
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0520267648 |
| Standard No. |
9786613291790 |
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