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

Luke Whitmore

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2018

Mountain, Water, Rock, God

Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century

Luke Whitmore

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520970151

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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.

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Luke Whitmore is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: In the Direction of Kedar Open Access Download PDF	1
1. In Pursuit of Shiva Open Access Download PDF	29
2. Lord of Kedar Open Access Download PDF	56
3. Earlier Times Open Access Download PDF	84
4. The Season Open Access Download PDF	107
5. When the Floods Came Open Access Download PDF	145
6. Nature’s Tandava Dance Open Access Download PDF	168
7. Topographies of Reinvention Open Access Download PDF	197
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	211
Notes Open Access Download PDF	217
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	227
Index Open Access Download PDF	251