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Anya Bernstein, Anya E. Bernstein, Bernstein Anya

Religious Bodies Politic - Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

English · Hardback

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Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Anya Bernstein, Anya E. Bernstein, Bernstein Anya
Publisher	University Of Chicago Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	27.11.2013

EAN	9780226072555
ISBN	978-0-226-07255-5
No. of pages	280
Series	Buddhism and Modernity Buddhism and Modernity Buddhism and Modernity (CHUP)
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Buddhism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology

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