Mountain, Water, Rock, God : Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century / / Luke Whitmore.

"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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Place / Publishing House:Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) :; illustrations, maps; PDF, digital file(s).
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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.