Rave Culture and Religion

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. <em>Rave Culture and Religion</em> will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology cultural studies and religious studies.