Rave Culture and Religion

(see Grimes 1990:10). This approach facilitates a theoretical engagement with the fluidity and creativity of raves and their soc ...

problematical essentialism underlying Turner’s limen, of which communitas is a modality. Especially in its application to pilgri ...

community of equal individuals (1967:99ff.; 1969:96; 1982:47); an essential and generic human bond (1969:97; 1985:233); a set of ...

during ritual performances. Yet, despite their clinicality, these passages betray a resemblance to contemporary descriptions of ...

intensify the process, creating effects ‘so that sounds seem to caress the listener’s skin’ (Reynolds 1999:84). As rave’s transg ...

I feel lucky, I feel lucky enough to have tasted it even. Because, Tim, like, there are moments, I mean, the world stops. TIM: I ...

merge into a kind of collective body, a place where desire and production meet in a state of flow. (Tramacchi 2001:174; see also ...

At the time of writing, in the central Canadian rave scene such exclusionary practices as highlighted by Thornton appear to be l ...

The rave experience as temporary and utopian Although popularly perceived otherwise, Émile Durkheim actually ascribed both a re- ...

marginal. It occupies the ‘cracks and vacancies’ left by the state, including abandoned industrial complexes—the detritus of Eur ...

Connectedness, sociocultural revitalization and new religious movements As I discussed above, Émile Durkheim and Victor Turner b ...

of a society feel they need but is not being supplied by other means’ (Barker 1999: 26). In other words, they show us the ‘gaps’ ...

media contribute to these effects, facilitating the processes of globalization and the destabilization of both individual subjec ...

certainly transformed Euro-American popular culture, most rave ‘communities’ possess little to no formal social structures and a ...

Notes 1 Including religion (Allen et al. 1998; McCarthy 1982; Nielsen 1999; Pickering 1984; Thompson 1993; Wallwork 1985), ritua ...

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