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.

• Acknowledgements


• Note on Transliterations, Translations and Photographs


• Chronology


• Introduction: If you want to have a future you have to have a good relationship to your past


• Chapter 1: An Inauguration for Etigelov: Multiple Genres of History in Buryatia


• Chapter 2: Soviet Selves: Victory Day


• Chapter 3: City Day, Hospitality, the Friendship of the Peoples and Multikulturalizm


• Chapter 4: Etigelov at Maidari: The Once and Future Buddhist


• Chapter 5: Opening the Center, Opening the Roads


• Chapter 6: Porous Selves: Yuri's Initiation


• Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Notes


• Index

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.