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

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

Mountain, Water

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.

“Mountain, Water, Rock, God is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Kedarnath, a pilgrimage destination of pan-Indian importance. Accessible and poetically evocative, the work is timely, at times wrenching, and the scholarship is superior, covering important ground across disciplines.

Luke Whitmore

https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.61/read/?loc=001.xhtml

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

2018

Baihaqi

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