Robin Sylvan

Trance Formation (eBook, ePUB)

The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136732126
• Artikelnr.: 39703535

Autorenporträt

Robin Sylvan, Ph.D., is the founder and director of The Sacred Center, a nonprofit educational organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Traces ofthe Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music.

Inhaltsangabe

I. An Introduction to the World of Raves: Three Scenes 1. A Brief History
of the Rave Scene 2. The Full Spectrum of Events: from Warehouse Parties
and Clubs to Burning Man and the Love Parade II. The Spiritual and
Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture 3. Trance Formation: The
Religious Experience of Rave 4. Techno Tribal Church: The Ritual and
Ceremonial Forms of Rave 5. Transformation: Rave Worldview, Rave
Spirituality, and Global Rave Culture 6. Living Laboratories: Rave
Communities and Networks Conclusion: Rave New World Appendix Notes
Bibliography