HIV is God′s Blessing - Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-26762-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zigon, Jarrett

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jarrett Zigon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Morality: An Anthropological Perspective and Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow.