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Author Whitmore, Luke, 1973- author.

Title Mountain, water, rock, god : understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century / Luke Whitmore.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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
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Subject Siva (Hindu deity)
Kidrnh (Temple : Kedrantha, India)
Siva (Hindu deity)
Siva (Hindu deity)
Kidrnh (Temple : Kedrantha, India)
Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Catastrophes naturelles -- Aspect religieux -- Hindouisme.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
Indexed Term 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.
Other Form: Print version: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- Mountain, water, rock, god. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298026 (DLC) 2018024588
ISBN 0520970152
0520298020
9780520298026
9780520970151 (electronic bk.)
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