Murray, Jesse D. (2012) Building empire among the Buryats: Conversion encounters in Russia's Baikal region, 1860s - 1917. Doctoral thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The dissertation argues that encounters between Russian Orthodox missionaries and the Buryats with whom they worked in Russia’s Siberian Baikal region between the 1860s and 1917 epistemologically emplaced the Buryats within the empire and caused Orthodoxy to assume the role of bearer of imperial processes of liberalization and modernization. As missionaries and Buryats attempted to negotiate encounters, they deployed arguments about what it meant to be Buryat and what it meant to be Orthodox that drew on languages of individuality and affect, law, citizenship, science, and nationality that emanated from the imperial center. As a result, both Orthodoxy and Buryatness came to be defined through such languages, frequently with Buryatness functioning as either parochial opposition to imperial change or local evidence of imperial change, and Orthodoxy as a proxy for broad imperial processes of modernization.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Marriage, Lamaism, Shamanism, Power, Colonialism |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Conversion G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Russian Federation |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2021 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2021 14:00 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1929 |
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