Title Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat buddhism / Anya Bernstein

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations Series Buddhism and modernity Buddhism and modernity. 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 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Buddhism -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ Buriats -- Religion Eurasian school -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. Buddhism Buddhist monasticism and religious orders Buriats -- Religion Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) SUBJECT Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia) -- Religious life and customs -- 21st century Subject Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226072692 022607269X

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