V. Rodionov

«Two Buddhisms» on the VKontakte Social Network: Religious Conversion and Ethno-Religious Tradition

This article presents the results of a study of contemporary Buddhist communities in Russia through the conceptual framework of the “two Buddhisms” dichotomy. The empirical basis of the study consists of a large-scale analysis of digital traces, namely publicly available attributes of user profiles on the VKontakte soc...