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Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat buddhism / Anya Bernstein.
LIBRA BQ709.R85 B87834 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Anya.
- Series:
- Buddhism and modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡a.
- Buddhism.
- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡a.
- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism).
- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡a.
- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
- Eurasian school.
- Buriats--Religion.
- Buriats.
- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia)--Religious life and customs--21st century.
- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia).
- Eurasian school--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Russia (Federation)--Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 258 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous Russian republic with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among Buryats across changing political economies, Anya Bernstein argues that under the conditions of rapid social change that accompanied the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union, Buryats have used Buddhist "body politics" to articulate their relationship not only with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Pilgrims, fieldworkers, and secret agents: Buryat buddhologists and a Eurasian imaginary
- Sovereign bodies: death, reincarnation, and border crossings in the transnational terrain
- The post-Soviet treasure hunt: new sacred histories and geographies
- Disciplining the monastic body: Buryat monks and nuns
- The body as gift: gender, the dead, and exchange in the chöd ritual economy
- Buddhism after socialism: money and morality in the world of Saṃsāra
- Epilogue: Bodies, gifts, and sovereignty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226072555
- 022607255X
- 9780226072722
- 022607272X
- OCLC:
- 832280929
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