Rave Culture and Religion (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: St John, Graham

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134379729
• Artikelnr.: 38401966

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.