Examines Glastonbury, Britain's most famous festival, and attempts to ask how are we to read Glastonbury, the 'mother of all festivals'? Is it a carnivalesque event or does it simply hold up a mirror to wider society? Is it revolutionary or conservative, a hippy utopia or a glittering psychedelic theme park?
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The tenth 'lecture' in the series Festivals in Religion and Culture. This is used by students as an option within U73621 Essentials of Religion.
Anthropology, Communication, Media and Culture, Education, History, Philosophy , Religion and Theology, Sociology
Festivals Religion Culture U73621 Glastonbury polysemy
students
Global citizenship, Critical self-awareness and personal literacy, Academic literacy
Faculties\Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences