Mountain, Water, Rock, God Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century / Luke Whitmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitmore, Luke, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural disasters--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Natural disasters.

Ecology--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Ecology.

Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India).

Siva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps; PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Introduction: in the direction of Kedar

In pursuit of Shiva

Lord of Kedar

Earlier times

The season

When the floods came

Nature's Tandava dance

Topographies of reinvention.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: ‡z 9780520298026

ISBN:

0-520-29802-0

OCLC:

1040205158