Mountain, water, rock, god : understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century /

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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 theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Siva > (Hindu deity)
Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, 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
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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