Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets examines indigenous, post-Soviet religious revival in the Republic of Buryatia through the lens of Bakhtin's chronotope. Comparing histories from Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Quijada offers a new lens for analyzing ritual and an innovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know their past.

About the author

Justine Buck Quijada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on shamanism, secularism, and ritual. She is co-editor of Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia.

Summary

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets examines indigenous, post-Soviet religious revival in the Republic of Buryatia through the lens of Bakhtin's chronotope. Comparing histories from Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Quijada offers a new lens for analyzing ritual and an innovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know their past.

Additional text

In this highly innovative study, Dr. Quijada shows that rituals do not just make history, but do so through distinctive genres that come from seemingly contradictory domains: Soviet, shamanic, and Buddhist. By combining ritual studies with insights from linguistic anthropology she illustrates how rhetorical referencing can change an event that has occurred in the past.

Product details

• Authors: Justine Buck Quijada, Justine Buck (Assistant Professor Quijada
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions
• EAN: 9780190916794
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091679-4
• Pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies; Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Subjects: Buddhismus, Russland, Europäische Geschichte, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Religion - World Religions, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, History of Religion