Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat buddhism /
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 B...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Buddhism and modernity.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.