{"product_id":"enlightenment-and-the-gasping-city-saskia-abrahms-kavunenko-9781501737657","title":"Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment and the Gasping City\u003c\/i\u003e identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501737651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501737657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2019","brand":"Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979758076159,"sku":"9781501737657","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffd9e3ba-261a-484b-a51e-a6145e8c77c1.jpg?v=1683246798","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enlightenment-and-the-gasping-city-saskia-abrahms-kavunenko-9781501737657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}