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
Main Author: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Siva > (Hindu deity)
Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India)
Ecology > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Natural disasters > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 pages).
ISBN:9780520970151
Access:Open Access

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