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):

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India).

Siva (Hindu deity).

Ecology--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Ecology.

Natural disasters--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- Mountain, water, rock, god.

ISBN:

9780520298026

0520298020

OCLC:

1029805077