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 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. Provided by publisher