Festivals, Drugs and Spirituality

Description

This part of the series discusses the role of various religions in modern festivals, and how drugs have been used to gain religious experiences. Finally the section looks at rave culture as an alternative spirituality.

Resource type

text

Notes

The ninth 'lecture' in the series Festivals in Religion and Culture. This is used by students as an option within U73621 Essentials of Religion.

Teaching subject area

Anthropology, Communication, Media and Culture, Education, History, Philosophy , Religion and Theology, Sociology

Keywords

Festivals Religion Culture U73621 ritual spirituality drugs LSD hashish mescaline MDMA entheogens Buddhafield William James Aldous Huxley Timothy Leary rave

Resource designed for:

students

Graduate attributes

Research literacy, Global citizenship, Critical self-awareness and personal literacy, Academic literacy

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Faculties\Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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