Mountain, Water, Rock, God : Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century / Luke Whitmore.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520970151
- Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
- Environmental sciences
- History of Asia
- Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
- Religion (General)
- RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice
- 2013
- climate change
- commercialization
- development
- disastrous flooding
- ecological context
- ecology
- environment
- himalayan
- hindu
- hindus
- holistic theoretical perspective
- human experience
- human fault
- impact
- kedarnath
- middle class
- natural consequence
- phenomenological
- pilgrimage
- pilgrims
- regulation
- religious
- resident divine powers
- ritual
- shiva
- shrine
- statehood
- study of religion
- tourists
- uttarakhand
- 294.5/35095451 23
- BL1215.N34 W45 2018
- BL1215.N34 W45 2018
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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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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