Название: Mountain, water, rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the twenty-first century
Автор: Luke Whitmore
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 280
Для сайта: litmy.ru
Размер: 14.45 МБ
Язык: english

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 theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.