Rave Culture: Medicine, Healing, and Spirituality.
Based on these testimonials, the rave can be conceptualized as a form of healing comparable both to shamanic, ecstatic healing documented in ethnographies of small-scale non-western societies, and to spiritual experiences in modern western subcultures. Our understanding of the rave, previously approached from a cultural.Scott R. Hutson’s “The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures”introduces an opposing theory that raving is a spiritual practice wherein the symbolic processes embedded in culture create appropriate frameworks for healing. Gilbert Rouget’s conceptualization of trance and how it is managed in the ritual context provide the.Raves in the 1980s, was a new, big, hip culture, but now a day raves are known as a subculture. Raves “are the focus of rave cultu re, a youth-oriented subculture that blends music, art and social ideals (e.g., peace, love, unity, respe ct, tolerance, happiness) together” (Scotts).
Such therapeuticism can be more fully understood in the context of other modern western spiritual subcultures. Placing raves within the context of these other subcultures foregrounds questions for.Rave Is More Than a Subculture. Jessica Hocking. This essay aims to look at how rave culture is more than just a youth subculture as defined by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (C.C.C.S.). It will start by looking at the C.C.C.S.’s definition of a youth subculture and will go on to examine rave culture in relation to.
Hudson also discusses the usage of drugs--it will always be discussed when talking about raves--but he insists that in the case of technoshamanism, drugs play second fiddle. It is only an aid, to help ravers get to that spiritual high faster and easier.
