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 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.


Author: Luke Whitmore
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780520298026
ISBN10: 0520298020
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Hinduism | Ritual & Practices
- Science | Environmental Science (see also Chemistry | Environmental)
- History | Asia | South | General

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