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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 theoretic...

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Main Author: Whitmore, Luke, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Siva > (Hindu deity)
Kidārnāṭh (Temple : Kedāranātha, India)
Ecology > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Natural disasters > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme.
Electronic books.
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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.

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