Religious Diversity for the Sake of Ethnic Unity? Shamanism and Buddhism in Creating Buryat Ethnic Identity

• Autorzy: Ewa Nowicka , Wojciech Połeć
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, religious revival has played an important role in the changes taking place in the lives of peoples who inhabit Siberia. Religion has been regarded as one of the most important factors shaping national consciousness and, at the same time, one of the primary means through which national identity can be expressed. Nonetheless, religious diversity can affect this process of forging national bonds. Buryats are a culturally diverse people, divided along religious lines, thus engendering problems when a religious system is implemented for the purposes of modern nation building. Some Buryats advocate for the universal adoption of Buddhism, while others advocate shamanistic beliefs. Tensions arise from the fact that shamanism is prevalent throughout the lands occupied by ethnic Buryats while Buddhism is in fact territorially limited; the latter, however, is still institutionally and territorially more significant. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Religion; Identity

PL

Religia; Tożsamość

• Czasopismo: Polish Sociological Review
• Rocznik: 2019
• Numer: nr 2 (206)
• Strony: 237--247

Twórcy

autor

Ewa Nowicka

• Collegium Civitas

autor

Wojciech Połeć

• Warsaw University of Life Sciences

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DOI

10.26412/psr206.07