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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Main Author: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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