Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
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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.
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Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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.
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Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century

Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century

by Luke Whitmore
Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century

Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century

by Luke Whitmore

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520970151
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/27/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 278
Sales rank: 882,702
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Luke Whitmore is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration


Introduction: In the Direction of Kedar
1. In Pursuit of Shiva
2. Lord of Kedar
3. Earlier Times
4. The Season
5. When the Floods Came
6. Nature’s Tandava Dance
7. Topographies of Reinvention

Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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