| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Buddhism and modernity
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Buddhism and modernity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a.
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Buddhism. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a. |
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Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a.
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Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) |
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Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a.
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Buddhist monasticism and religious orders. |
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Buri͡atii͡a (Russia) -- Religious life and customs -- 21st century.
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Buriats -- Religion.
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Buriats -- Religion. |
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Eurasian school -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Eurasian school. |
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Buriats. |
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a. |
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Religion. |
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Philosophy & Religion. |
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Buddhism. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bernstein, Anya. Religious bodies politic 9780226072555 (DLC) 2013013420 (OCoLC)832280929 |
| ISBN |
9780226072692 (electronic book) |
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022607269X (electronic book) |
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9780226072555 |
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022607255X |
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9780226072722 |
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022607272X |
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