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Transformational Festivals: A New Religious Movement?

Transformational Festivals: A New Religious Movement?

Andrew Johner
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781466686656|ISBN10: 1466686650|EISBN13: 9781466686663
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch003
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Johner, Andrew. "Transformational Festivals: A New Religious Movement?." Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture, edited by Emília Simão, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 58-86. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch003

APA

Johner, A. (2015). Transformational Festivals: A New Religious Movement?. In E. Simão, A. Malheiro da Silva, & S. Tenreiro de Magalhães (Eds.), Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture (pp. 58-86). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch003

Chicago

Johner, Andrew. "Transformational Festivals: A New Religious Movement?." In Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture, edited by Emília Simão, Armando Malheiro da Silva, and Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães, 58-86. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch003

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Abstract

With the growing popularity of psychedelic trance worldwide, as well as a general resurgence of electronic music in the United States, several new forms of music festivals are one the rise in North America- among these are transformational festivals. Transformational festivals in North America are a progeny of psychedelic trance, Burning Man, and full-moon rave culture. Transformational festivals incorporate spiritual practices such as yoga, chanting, meditation and ecstatic dance alongside their primary exhibits of musical and psychedelic entertainment. The festivals advertise a predominating intention of providing attendees with multiple avenues of self-development, therapeutic healing, and spiritual transformation. The purpose of this chapter is to access elements of belonging, identity, religiosity, and elitism among transformational culture and their transformational festival events. This chapter will offer comparison to religious revivals, cults, new religious movements, millenarianism, and cultural revitalization movements.

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