Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520298026)

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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.


Author: Luke Whitmore
ISBN-10: 0520298020
ISBN-13: 9780520298026
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d