[Dancecult-l] Rave Culture and Religion - PAPERBACK

[Graham St John]

I'm happy to announce that Rave Culture and Religion is now available 
as a paperback.  After five years (!) in the wilderness as an 
horrendously over-priced and inaccessible hardback.


Rave Culture and Religion

Edited by Graham St John

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Now Available in PAPERBACK.

$34.00 (US)

http://www.routledge.com/books/Rave-Culture-and-Religion-isbn9780415552509


Vast numbers of contemporary youth have attached primary significance 
to raving and post-rave experiences. This collection of essays 
explores the socio-cultural and religious dimensions of the rave, 
'raving' and rave-derived phenomena.

Rave Culture and Religion provides insights on developments in 
post-traditional religiosity 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. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential 
reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of 
sociology, cultural studies and religious studies.


"Rave Culture and Religion is a smart book collecting essays many by 
emerging scholars and graduate students who, in personally 
experiencing rave culture, find immediate and urgent applicability 
for the academic theories they are reading. To link rave and religion 
will hopefully prove shocking enough to the established academic 
study of religion to open new discussions about religion and popular 
culture. To link rave and sophisticated academic study will hopefully 
be shocking enough to a few ravers to lead them to see beyond a 
simple-minded fuzzy understanding of the power and importance of what 
they are experiencing." - Professor Sam Gill, University of Colorado 
at Boulder


     Contents:

     Foreword by Douglas Rushkoff
     Introduction

Part I Techno Culture Spirituality

1. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary - Graham St John
2. Ephemeral Spirit: Sacrificial Cyborg and Communal Soul - 
Hillegonda C. Rietveld

Part II Dance, Rapture and Communion

3. Rapturous Ruptures: 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

Part III Music: The Techniques of Sound and Ecstasy

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

Part IV Global Tribes: The Technomadic Counterculture

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.


More info
http://www.edgecentral.net/rcr.htm
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Dr Graham St John                             
Postdoctoral Fellow in Interactive Media and Performance
Faculty of Fine Arts,
Media Production and Studies
University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2
http://www.edgecentral.net/

Editor
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal/index
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