Rave Culture and Religion

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-55250-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

St John, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary Graham St John

2. Ephemeral Spirit: Sacrificial Cyborg and Communal Soul Hillegonda C. Rietveld

3. Raptures: the 'Instituant' Religious Experience of Rave François 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 Ecstacy 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

8. Selecting Ritual: DJ's 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

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Graham St John is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Interactive Media and Production at the University of Regina, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, Universoty of Queensland. His book Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures will be published with Equinox in September 2009. His previous publications include the edited collection Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (Berghahn 2008).