Robin Sylvan: 2 books

Book cover of Traces of the Spirit

Traces of the Spirit

The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music

by Robin Sylvan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002

"Sylvan's thesis furnishes far more of the same valued experiences than is usually realized: ritual activity, communal ceremony, a philosophy and worldview, a code for living one's life, a cultural identity, a social structure, a sense of belonging, and crucially, Sylvan argues encounters with...
Book cover of Trance Formation

Trance Formation

The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture

by Robin Sylvan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
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