Rave Culture and Religion

Burning Man was therapy of the highest order. She was sick, sad, depressed, mentally ill by most standards. There was an emptine ...

Neo-Pagans tend to place greater emphasis on embodiment, earth religions, ecology, and magic. While there are other differences ...

One of the most interesting aspects of Burning Man’s open-endedness is the ways in which it has allowed participants to hybridiz ...

What exactly are Neo-Pagans and how do they relate to festivals such as Burning Man? Pike considers “Neo-Pagans” to be people wh ...

concentric circles which act as streets, for example. Later in this chapter we will also explore the common elements of fire rit ...

inclinations are present in many other theme camps besides TOTEM. For example, consider the Sacred Playground theme camp, which ...

of rave also adopts terms and figures from Neo-Pagan literature, refer encing influential high priests of modern chaos magick su ...

Dery’s (1996) use of the term infers that technology is only or mainly important to a certain subsect of Neo-Pagans. Yet this in ...

its own organic forms” (ibid.:183). Exactly the same is true of the burning of the Man. Describing the Australian post-rave doof ...

easily surpass 100° Fahrenheit during the day, and plunge to 40° in the evening. Constant rehydration is required: “piss clear” ...

our understanding of many contemporary festivals, such as post-rave events and Burning Man. We further suggest that these spaces ...

during, and subsequent to our immersion in the events, we kept detailed written field notes. We also recorded events and intervi ...

Gibson, Chris (1999) “Subversive sites: rave cultures, spatial politics and the Internet in Sydney, Australia,” Area 31(1): 19–3 ...

Index abandonment 73–77, 155 accessories 143–6 ‘accursed share’ 65–9 acid house 25, 49–2, 183, 184 ‘Adam’ 144 adolescents 148–50 ...

Beck, J. 149 Becker, Judith 201 Beckford James A. 288 being-in-the-world 77 Belk, Russell 298 Bennett,J.G. 222 Berger, Peter 80n ...

commercialization 35, 298 communitas 82; characteristics of 86–93; communal soul 56–8; community at- one-ness 27–31, 45; connect ...

divination 122 DIY parties 35–8 DJ (magazine) 50, 55 DJs: abroad 186; anonymity of 67; appreciation of 189; Christianity and 33; ...

ensorcelment 122 entheogenic rituals 122–40 enthusiasm 86–87 environmental factors 155–8 environmentalism 227–1 EQing 173–6, 179 ...

regulatory measures 281; sunrise 258–2, 278–2; tradition 255 Goa Gil 25, 220, 256, 259–3, 261, 262 Goa Parties 238, 247 Goffman, ...

Kagenna 210 Kartomi, Margaret 200 Kaulingfreks, Ruud 274 Keehn, Jason see Cinnamon Twist Keen, Sam 137 ketamine 148 Kielarowski, ...