Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism - Buddhism and Modernity - Anya Bernstein - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226072722 - November 27, 2013
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Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism - Buddhism and Modernity


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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.


272 pages, 27 halftones, 6 tables

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 27, 2013
ISBN13 9780226072722
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 280
Dimensions 153 × 230 × 24 mm   ·   394 g

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