Mountain, water, rock, god: understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century

"In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theo...

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Main Author: Whitmore, Luke (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oakland, California University of Californiarnia Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kedarnath / Hinduism / Pilgrimage / Śiva
RelBib Classification:BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
Further subjects:B Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India)
B Siva
B Ecology Religious aspects Hinduism
B Natural Disasters Religious aspects Hinduism
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Summary:"In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place." --Provided by publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN:0520970152
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/luminos.61