Event Religion and European Festival Experience

Concepts and Case Studies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04135-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of ‘event religion’ for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival, a Catholic event, and a rock-metal music festival. The author suggests that examining event experiences along the four dimensions of spatiotemporality, symbols, community, and inward experience provides a conceptual framework for understanding contemporary alternative religious beliefs, behaviours, and experiences. She also utilises ‘religionesque’ as an umbrella term for the various concepts that describe religion-related experiences and approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, sociology, anthropology, and others with a focus on events and festivals.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heidl, Sara E.

Heidl, Sára E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction; 1. Research Objectives and Concepts; 2. European Festival Experience; 3. Methodology and Case Studies; Part II. The Four Dimensions of Experience; 4. Spatiotemporal Dimension; 5. The Dimension of Symbols; 6. The Dimension of Community experience; 7. Inward dimension: The experience of the inner self

Über Autor(innen)

Sára E. Heidl is a researcher in the Research Centre for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society at the University of Vienna, Austria.