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Rave Culture and Religion Graham St John

Rave Culture and Religion By Graham St John

Rave Culture and Religion by Graham St John


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Summary

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.

Rave Culture and Religion Summary

Rave Culture and Religion by Graham St John

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.

Rave Culture and Religion Reviews

Rave Culture and Religion is a smart book collecting essays many by emerging scholars and graduate students who, in personally experiencing rave culture, find immediate and urgent applicability for the academic theories they are reading. To link rave and religion will hopefully prove shocking enough to the established academic study of religion to open new discussions about religion and popular culture. To link rave and sophisticated academic study will hopefully be shocking enough to a few ravers to lead them to see beyond a simple-minded fuzzy understanding of the power and importance of what they are experiencing.- Professor Sam Gill, University of Colorado at Boulder


Rave Culture and Religion is a smart book colleting essays many by emerging scholars and graduate students who, in personally experiencing rave culture, find immediate and urgent applicability for the academic theories they are reading. To link rave and religion will hopefully prove shocking enough to the established academic study of religion to open new discussions about religion and popular culture. To link rave and sophisticated academic study will hopefully be shocking enough to a few ravers to lead them to see beyond a simple-minded fuzzy understanding of the power and importance of what they are experiencing. - Professor Sam Gill, University of Colorado at Boulder.

About Graham St John

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).

Table of Contents

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 Francois 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.

Additional information

NLS9780415552509
9780415552509
0415552508
Rave Culture and Religion by Graham St John
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-05-21
332
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