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Trance formation : the spiritual and religious dimensions of global rave culture

This text presents a comprehensive exploration of the spiritual and religious dimensions of global rave culture. It provides a study of the rich spiritual subcultures which continue to flourish across the world, from Nevada to London and Berlin. Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century. Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century
Print Book, English, 2005
Routledge, New York, 2005