Rave Culture and Religion

laboured to disclose a ‘revolutionary’ culture holding the potential ‘to ultimately change the course of human consciousness’ (F ...

corporealizing utopian dreams, entering alternate states of consciousness and communicating with the sacred (with or without the ...

one more cultural sphere in tension with established practices and public policy ‘using religion’ to symbolize ‘ultimate meaning ...

Book outline The collection is divided into four parts. The first, ‘Techno culture spirituality’, deciphers trends within the fa ...

‘effer vescence of rave in contemporary youth culture’, illustrates thriving religiosity in fragmented and non-institutional for ...

knowledge’ of its simultaneous unity with the world and its alterity from it—its ‘difference-within-identity’. Any study of elec ...

course of events. Depending on their ‘ritual knowledge’, for dancers each DJ mix may replay, and eventually accelerate, the phas ...

a period of optimism and revitalization fed by cyber and digital developments. The Mediterranean island of Ibiza (Spain) and the ...

capitalism, state regulation, patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, nationalism and racism. Thus, while not seeking to empty rave ...

3 From the late 1980s Sheffield’s Anglican Nine O’clock Service constituted ‘radical Christian discipleship’ in a multimedia env ...

Maffesoli, M. (1996) [1988] The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society, London: Sage. Malbon, B. (1999 ...

Part I Techno culture spirituality ...

1 The difference engine Liberation and the rave imaginary Graham St John [The] insurrectionary ‘noise’ or chaos of TAZs, uprisin ...

beginning here and now’ (1997:155). Attending to the millennialist trope in post- rave, it is surmized that while commonly holdi ...

An unmistakable rapture resounds through rave’s cultural accretion—its technological assemblage long underwritten by an evidenti ...

are a ritual. An exercise for the soul as well as the body. We need to realize that the monolith we climbed the night before was ...

Rave ascension Rave is redolent with anticipation and promise. An assemblage of electronic, computer and audio-visual technologi ...

(Hutson 1999), a status earlier conferred upon disco and house legends like Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles, or are perhaps mor ...

patches, post-rave lies somewhere between extreme sports and a cargo cult for cyborgs. Post-ravers thus adopt electro-techniques ...

With the MDMA ‘family tree’ of compounds granted subcultural legitimacy through work like Alexander and Anne Shulgin’s PIHKAL (o ...