Rave Culture and Religion

Rave Culture and Religion

by Graham St John
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2004

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The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture, and investigations of transnational digital-art countercultures manifesting at geographic locations as diverse as Goa, India, and Nevada's Burning Man festival. Contributors examine raving as a new religious or revitalization movement; a powerful locus of sacrifice and transgression; a lived bodily experience; a practice comparable with world entheogenic rituals; and as evidencing a new Orientalism. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology, cultural studies and religious studies.

ISBN:
9781134379712
9781134379712
Category:
Religion & beliefs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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