Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful
interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the
Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been
considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often said that
worship of Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible." In this
book, David L. Haberman examines the perplexing paradox of an
infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form
is non-different from the unlimited. He takes on the task of
interpreting the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture
in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves
exploring the interpretive strategies that may explain what seems
un-understandable, and calls for theoretical considerations of
incongruity, inconceivability, and other realms of the impossible.
This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the
place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and its
twin, anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions.
Loving Stones uses the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to
explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of
representing other cultures struggle to make "the impossible
possible."
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