Religious Bodies Politic
Subtitle: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 27, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226072555
Description: This title 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.
Notes: Source title: Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity)