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

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

"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 theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [2018]
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Siva > (Hindu deity)
Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India)
Natural disasters > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Ecology > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
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.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429948406719
Table of 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.

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