Religious Bodies Politic [electronic resource] : Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Bernstein, Anya.
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 
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Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Chronology of Events; Introduction; Chapter One. Pilgrims, Fieldworkers, and Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and a Eurasian Imaginary; Chapter Two. Sovereign Bodies: Death, Reincarnaion, and Border Crossings in the Transnational Terrain; Chapter Three. The Post-Soviet Treasure Hunt: New Sacred Histories and Geographies; Chapter Four. Disciplining the Monastic Body: Buryat Monks and Nuns; Chapter Five: The Body As Gift: Gender, the Dead, and Exchange in the Chöd Ritual Economy
Chapter Six. Buddhism after Socialism: Money and Morality in the World of SamsāraEpilogue: Bodies, Gifts, and Sovereignty; Bibliography; Index
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 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Buddhism -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri?a?tii?a?.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri?a?tii?a?.
Buri?a?tii?a? (Russia) -- Religious life and customs -- 21st century.
Buriats -- Religion.
Eurasian school -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Monastic and religious life  (Buddhism) -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri?a?tii?a?.
Buddhism
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders
Buriats
Eurasian school
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Buddhism