@book {190876, title = {Religious Bodies Politic}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, organization = {University of Chicago Press}, address = {Chicago}, abstract = {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{\textemdash}such as those that accompanied the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union{\textemdash}Buryats have used Buddhist {\textquotedblleft}body politics{\textquotedblright} to articulate their relationship not only with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world.}, url = {http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo16552160.html}, author = {Bernstein, Anya} }