"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...