Mountain, Water, Rock, God
Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
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2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29802-6 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29802-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Luke Whitmore is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: In the Direction of Kedar
1. In Pursuit of Shiva
2. Lord of Kedar
3. Earlier Times
4. The Season
5. When the Floods Came
6. Nature’s Tandava Dance
7. Topographies of Reinvention
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 color photos, 2 tables |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-29802-0 / 0520298020 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-29802-6 / 9780520298026 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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