Sylvan Trance Formation

The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-73212-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sylvan, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music.