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Zusatztext "This is a fascinating book on an important topic." Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext "Zigon's ethnography provides a fascinating window onto the concrete processes through which people undergoing rehabilitation for drug addiction are remade as moral persons. This book adeptly combines ethnographically-based descriptions with forays into theology and Soviet history to deliver a compelling account of self-transformation in a contemporary Russian Orthodox milieu."-Eugene Raikhel! University of Chicago "Over the last decade! anthropologists have increasingly come to study the role of morality in shaping the course of social life. Within anthropological debates around morality! Zigon has been developing one of the most creative and challenging positions. In this book! he pushes his project to a whole new level! working it out carefully through an important ethnographic case. Those interested in morality in any field will want to read this striking exemplification of the way an anthropology of morality can help us think about social life in new ways."-Joel Robbins! University of California! San Diego Zusammenfassung Examines the role of Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. 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 ...
