Rave culture and religion

Routledge

2004

xv, 314 pages

Routledge advances in sociology ; 8

9780203507964

Part I. Techno culture spirituality --1. The difference engine : liberation and the rave imaginary / Graham St. John --2. Ephemeral irit : sacrificial cyborg and communal soul / Hillegonda C. Rietveld --Part II. Dance, rapture and communion --3. Rapturous ruptures : he 'instituant' religious experience of rave / Francois Gauthier --4. 'Connectedness' and the rave experience : rave as new religious ovement? / Tim Olaveson --5. The flesh of raving : Merleau-Ponty and the 'experience' of ecstasy / James Landau --6. Entheogenic dance cstasis : cross-cultural contexts / Des Tramacchi --7. The 'natural high' : altered states, flashbacks and neural tuning at raves / elanie Takahashi --Part III. Music : the techniques of sound and ecstasy --8. Selecting ritual : DJs, dancers and liminality in nderground dance music / Morgan Gerard -- Sounds of the London Underground : gospel music and Baptist worship in the UK garage scene / iaran O'Hagan --10. Gamelan, techno-primitivism, and the San Francisco rave scene / Gina Andrea Fatone --Part IV. Global tribes : the echnomadic counterculture --11. Techno millennium : dance, ecology and future primitives / Graham St. John --12. Global nomads : echno nd New Age as transnational countercultures in Ibiza and Goa / Anthony D'Andrea --13. Hedonic tantra : golden Goa's trance ransmission rik Davis --14. Goa trance and trance in Goa : smooth striations / Arun Saldanha --15. Dancing on common ground : exploring the sacred t Burning Man / Robert V. Kozinets and John F. Sherry, Jr.

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