HIV is God's blessing
Subtitle: rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia
By: Jarrett Zigon
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780520267626; 9780520267640
Subjects: Religious aspects; Social conditions; Social values; Moral conditions; HIV Infections; Rehabilitation; Prevention; Drug addicts; AIDS (Disease); Eastern Orthodoxy; Morals; Church and social problems; Substance-Related Disorders; Orthodox Eastern Church; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ; Social Values; Prevention & control; HIV infections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258).
Table of contents: title: HIV, drug use, and the politics of indifference; title: The Church's rehabilitation program; title: The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and injecting drug use; title: Moral and ethical assemblages; title: Synergeia and simfoniia: orthodox morality, human rights, and the state; title: Working on the self; title: Enchurchment; title: Cultivating a normal life; title: Normal sociality: obshchenie and controlling emotions; title: Disciplining responsibility: labor and gender.