A brief history of the rave scene -- The full spectrum of events : from warehouse parties and clubs to Burning Man and the Love Parade -- Trance formation : the religious experience of rave -- Techno tribal church : the ritual and ceremonial forms of rave -- Transformation : rave worldview, rave spirituality, and global rave culture -- Living laboratories : rave communities and networks -- Conclusion : rave new world
Summary
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
