Rave Culture and Religion

Consequently, far from wanting institutions to domesticate and control a dangerous and savage type of experience, contemporaries ...

transgression had been emptied of their substance and anaesthetized, channelled into leisure activities or entertainment commodi ...

thus referring, more or less explicitly, to a symbolic mechanism making use of transgression (Bataille 1986, 1988, 1989). To und ...

symbolically) hijack buildings and spaces at the expense of ownership. Clandestine warehouse parties are the best example of thi ...

We have been transported to the edge of language, where its multipotentiality is fully exploited. Words here are only forms offe ...

exclusion is necessary for a rave to be a fully effective vehicle for sociality, effervescence and community. The over-mediated ...

Everything in rave is oriented towards producing a confusional space where references are blurred through indistinctiveness or s ...

Consumption Rave’s most important innovation is its break from the spectacle format of the rock show while blowing the club danc ...

communication. It is a dance in which gender and personality are transcended and the usual mode of negotiation and seduction yie ...

requires it be worked. Supporting the participation thesis, ravers generally acknowledge that the ecstasy trip is not a passive ...

this entails). Holding the self as an offering in a consumed moment of surrender, were we to pursue this logic, recalls in turn ...

social effervescence in which it takes place and the ‘positive’, hyper nature of its excesses. Yet it is not a collective trance ...

insertion in a way of life and a whole system of beliefs and meaning. Mysticism and the rave rift nevertheless share abandon in ...

Notes 1 The Threshold of Religion, p. xxxi; quoted in Kerr (1991:249). 2 A draft of this ideal-type as well as further outlooks ...

13 Hurley (Bataille 1989:52) translates the French ‘fête’ as ‘festival’. While ‘festive’ (or even ‘celebration’) refers to some ...

26 This whole paragraph refers to Bastide (1997:225). 27 ‘Religiology’ (‘religiologie’) is a constituent term of the heuristic p ...

— (2001b) ‘Les Raves ou la mise à l’épreuve underground de la centralité parisienne’, Mouvements, January–February; available on ...

Peterson, Robert (1996) ‘Ecstasy’: synthèse documentaire et pistes de prevention, Saint-Charles- Borromée, Québec: Direction de ...

4 ‘Connectedness’ and the rave experience Rave as new religious movement? Tim Olaveson Is rave simply about the dissipation of u ...

scholars of religious movements. Finally, I suggest that rave cultures do in fact exhibit many features of new religious movemen ...