Rave Culture and Religion

£58.99

Rave Culture and Religion

Popular culture Sociology Religion: general

Dinosaur mascot

Collection: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 1st June 2004

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9781134379712


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.

Show moreShow less