Rave Culture and Religion

Notes 1 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/fraserclark/docs/ravelations/countdown.htm (accessed 2 October 2002). 2 http://www.4qf.org/ ...

26 Excerpts of this were published in the Megatripolitan Newsletter, circa February 1994, and reproduced at: http://easyweb.easy ...

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12 Global Nomads Techno and New Age as transnational countercultures in Ibiza and Goa Anthony D’Andrea The nomad does not move. ...

gatherings such as “raves” and “trance parties” taking place at urban “wild zones” (Stanley 1997) or secret rural areas. Techno ...

individualism; reflexive (often mystic) outlooks on reality; ritual centrality of aesthetic and transpersonal experiences (music ...

suffer as well as induce the deterritorializing effects of “time-space compres sion” (Harvey 1990). Digitalization, migration, a ...

galore,” attracting a youthful, carefree tourist clientele constituted predominantly by the British working class (40 percent of ...

imaginaries correlating to an alternative lifestyle centered on expressive, hedonic, cosmopolitan, and nomadic tropes. The makin ...

During the early 1970s, a community of hippies and neo-sannyasins (Osho followers, as described below) colonized the northern Go ...

countercultural forms of resistance and the capturing modes of mass societies from which they (unsuccessfully) flee. Freaks are ...

opposed by some therapists since many visitors are already undergoing intense therapies during the day. During the 1970s, Osho’s ...

Silicon cage and post-sexualities The emergence of transnational forms of digital art-religion must be understood in contexts of ...

liberation movements remain entrapped in the epistemic vectors they seek to transcend. “‘Couldn’t everyone’s life become a work ...

Oftentimes limit-experiences are induced by altering devices, grasped in Weberian terms as “intoxicating elements of orgiastic s ...

similar patterns of discovery, multiple cross-usage, dissemination, and criminalization.^6 An overlap between Techno and New Age ...

orgiastic as ascetic, as private as collective, as inner as outer—a dismantling organism, a Body-without-Organs. This explains w ...

for something not ordinary underlies all of these examples, a drive for movement as an extraordinary experience. Ibiza and Goa a ...

India, or Brazil. As the old hippie complains, “Then they loved us, now they blame us!” In India, Techno and New Age activities ...