Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat buddhism
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Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat buddhism
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Anya Bernstein.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations
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9780226072692
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Abstract:
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 republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among Buryats across changing political economies, Anya Bernstein argues that under conditions of rapid social change-such as those 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 wi.
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UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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Print version record.