Event Religion and European Festival Experience

<p>This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of event religion for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival a Catholic event and a rock-metal music festival. The author suggests that examining event experiences along the four dimensions of spatiotemporality symbols community and inward experience provides a conceptual framework for understanding contemporary alternative religious beliefs behaviours and experiences. She also utilises religionesque as an umbrella term for the various concepts that describe religion-related experiences and approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion sociology anthropology and others with a focus on events and festivals.</p>