Religious Bodies Politic - Anya Bernstein

Religious Bodies Politic

Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

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Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2013
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-07255-5 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
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. This book illustrates how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.
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 with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world. During these periods, Bernstein shows, certain people and their bodies became key sites through which Buryats conformed to or challenged Russian political rule. She presents particular cases of these emblematic bodies-dead bodies of famous monks, temporary bodies of reincarnated lamas, ascetic and celibate bodies of Buddhist monastics, and dismembered bodies of lay disciples given as imaginary gifts to spirits-to investigate the specific ways in which religion and politics have intersected.
Contributing to the growing literature on postsocialism and studies of sovereignty that focus on the body, Religious Bodies Politic is a fascinating illustration of how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.

Anya Bernstein is assistant professor of anthropology and-social studies at Harvard University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.1.2014
Reihe/Serie Buddhism and Modernity
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 24 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-07255-X / 022607255X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-07255-5 / 9780226072555
Zustand Neuware
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