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

• Main Author: Whitmore, Luke (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland University of California Press 2019
• Subjects: Asian history; Religion: general; The environment; place; Kedarnath; Shiva; ecology; development; disaster; complexity; pilgrimage; tourism; Hindu; phenomenology; Himalaya
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within its broader religious and ecological contexts. For centuries, the enmeshing of Shiva with the Himalayan environment has animated how Hindus conceptualize...