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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Anya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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.