Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Techno culture spirituality
  • 1. The difference engine : liberation and the rave imaginary / Graham St. John
  • 2. Ephemeral spirit : sacrificial cyborg and communal soul / Hillegonda C. Rietveld
  • Part II. Dance, rapture and communion
  • 3. Rapturous ruptures : 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 ecstasy / 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
  • Part III. Music : the techniques of sound and ecstasy
  • 8. Selecting ritual : DJs, 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
  • Part IV. Global tribes : the technomadic counterculture
  • 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.