Rave Culture and Religion (Hardcover)

1. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary Graham St John 2. Ephemeral Spirit: Sacrificial Cyborg and Communal Soul Hillegonda C. Rietveld 3. Raptures: the 'Instituant' Religious Experience of Rave Francois Gauthier 4. 'Connectedness' and the Rave Experience: Rave as New Religious Movement? Tim Olaveson 5. The Flesh of Raving: Merleau-Ponty and the 'Experience' of Ecstacy James Landau 6. Entheogenic Dance Ecstasis: Cross-cultural Contexts Des Tramacchi 7. The 'Natural High': Altered States, Flashbacks and Neural Tuning at Raves Melanie Takahashi 8. Selecting Ritual: DJ's Dancers and Liminality in Underground Dance Music Morgan Gerard 9. Sounds of the London Underground: Gospel Music and Baptist Worship in the UK Garage Scene Ciaran O'Hagan 10. Gamelan, Techno-Primitivism and the San Francisco Rave Scene Gina Andrea Fatone 11. Techno Millennium: Dance, Ecology and Future Primitives Graham St John 12. Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa Anthony D'Andrea 13. Hedonic Tantra: Golden Goa's Trance Transmission Erik Davis 14. Goa Trance and Trance in Goa: Smooth Striations Arun Saldanha 15. Dancing on Common Ground: Exploring the Sacred at Burning Man Robert V. Kozinets and John F. Sherry, Jr.