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Rave culture and religion
Title
Rave culture and religion / edited by Graham St. John.
ISBN
0203507967
0415314496
0415552508
1134379714
1134379722
6610064512
9780203507964
9780415314497
9780415552509
9781134379712
9781134379729
9786610064519
0415314496
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations
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English.
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Summary
Vast numbers of western youth have attached primary significance to raving and post-rave experiences. This collection of essays explores the socio-cultural and religious dimensions of the rave, 'raving' and rave-derived phenomena.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Rave culture and religion. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge advances in sociology ; 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Techno culture spirituality
1. The difference engine : liberation and the rave imaginary / Graham St. John
2. Ephemeral spirit : sacrificial cyborg and communal soul / Hillegonda C. Rietveld
Part II. Dance, rapture and communion
3. Rapturous ruptures : the 'instituant' religious experience of rave / Francois Gauthier
4. 'Connectedness' and the rave experience : rave as new religious movement? / Tim Olaveson
5. The flesh of raving : Merleau-Ponty and the 'experience' of ecstasy / James Landau
6. Entheogenic dance ecstasis : cross-cultural contexts / Des Tramacchi
7. The 'natural high' : altered states, flashbacks and neural tuning at raves / Melanie Takahashi
Part III. Music : the techniques of sound and ecstasy
8. Selecting ritual : DJs, dancers and liminality in underground dance music / Morgan Gerard
9. Sounds of the London Underground : gospel music and Baptist worship in the UK garage scene / Ciaran O'Hagan
10. Gamelan, techno-primitivism, and the San Francisco rave scene / Gina Andrea Fatone
Part IV. Global tribes : the technomadic counterculture
11. Techno millennium : dance, ecology and future primitives / Graham St. John
12. Global nomads : techno and New Age as transnational countercultures in Ibiza and Goa / Anthony D'Andrea
13. Hedonic tantra : golden Goa's trance transmission / Erik Davis
14. Goa trance and trance in Goa : smooth striations / Arun Saldanha
15. Dancing on common ground : exploring the sacred at Burning Man / Robert V. Kozinets and John F. Sherry, Jr.
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