Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
著者
書誌事項
Religious bodies politic : rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
（Buddhism and modernity）
University of Chicago Press, 2013
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index
収録内容
- 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
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
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