Mountain, water, rock, god : understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century

Mountain, water, rock, god : understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century /

"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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Author / Contributor: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- (Author)
Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Siva > (Hindu deity)
Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India)
Ecology > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Natural disasters > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: in the direction of Kedar
  • In pursuit of Shiva
  • Lord of Kedar
  • Earlier times
  • The season
  • When the floods came
  • Nature's Tandava dance
  • Topographies of reinvention.

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