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RAVE CULTURE AND RELIGION IBD

ROUTLEDGE
05 / 2009
9780415552509
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Sinopsis

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.