Rave culture and religion

edited by Graham St. John

Rave Culture and Religion explores the role of the technocultural rave in the spiritual life of contemporary youth. Documenting the socio-cultural and religious parameters of rave and post-rave phenomena at various locations around the globe, scholars of contemporary religion, dance ethnologists, sociologists and other cultural observers unravel this significant youth cultural practice. 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. A range of techno-spiritual developments are explored, including: *'techno-shamanic' DJ technique *techno-primitivism and the sampling of the exotic 'Other' *the influence of gospel music and the Baptist church on garage music *psychedelic trance, ecology and millennialism *psychoactive substance use and neural tuning. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology, cultural studies and religious studies.

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[目次]

  • 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.

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書名 Rave culture and religion
著作者等 St. John Graham
シリーズ名 Routledge advances in sociology
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xv, 314 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0415314496
NCID BA65929308
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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