The Burning Man Festival: Pre-Apocalypse Party or Postmodern Kingdom of God?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.26Keywords:
Neo-Paganism, Burning Man festivalAbstract
This festival is an important cultural and religious site that exemplifies the migration of religious meaning-making activities out of American temples and churches into other spaces.References
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Bellah, Robert N., et al. 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Chidester, David. 1995. “Introduction” in American Sacred Space, eds. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 1-42.
Cox, Harvey. 1995. Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Reading, Mass.: AddisonWesley Publishers.
Crumrine, N. Ross, and Alan Morinis, eds. 1991. Pilgrimage in Latin America. New York: Greenwood Press.
Davis, Erik. 1995. “Terminal Beach Party: Warming Up to the Burning Man.” Village Voice (31 October): 31 - 34.
Dowling, Claudia. 1997. “Life Goes to the Burning Man Festival.” Life (August): 16-18.
Drewel, Margaret Thompson. 1992. Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Duvignaud, Jean. 1976. “Festivals: A Sociological Approach.” Cultures 3, no. 1: 13- 25.
Foucault, Michel. 1986. “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 22-27.
Haberman, David L. 1994. Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hammond, Phillip E. 1992. Religion and Personal Autonomy: The Third Disestablishment in America. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
Kabat, Jennifer, and Pamela A. Ivinski. 1997. “Operation Desert Swarm.” Print (September/October): 4 - 5.
Kelly, Kevin. 1997. “Bonfire of the Techies.” Time (25 August): 60 -62.
Lelyveld, Nita. “Wild Westfest.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (9 September 1998, phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Sep/09/lifest yle): n.p.
Marks, John. 1997. “Burning Man Meets Capitalism.” U.S. News and World Report (28 July): 46 - 47.
Moore, R. Laurence. 1994. Selling God: American Religion on the Cultural Marketplace. New York: Oxford University Press.
Morinis, Alan, ed. 1992. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Murray, Janet H. 1997. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. New York: The Free Press.
Myerhoff, Barbara G. 1982. “Rites of Passage: Process and Paradox.” In Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual, ed., Victor Turner, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press: 109-135.
Orsi, Robert A. 1991. “The Center Out There, In Here, and Everywhere Else: The Nature of Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Saint Jude, 1929-1965.” Journal of Social History 25, no. 2 (Winter): 213- 232.
Roof, Wade Clark. 1993. A Generation of Seekers. San Francisco: Harper.
Shields, Rob. 1991. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. New York: Routledge.
Sterling, Bruce. 1996. “Greetings from Burning Man.” Wired 4 (November): 196-207.
Stoeltje, Beverly. 1992. “Festival.” in Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centred Handbook, ed. Richard Bauman, Oxford: Oxford UP: 266-269.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner. 1978. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.
Van Rhey, Darryl. 1998. “The New American Holiday” in “Building Burning Man: The Official Journal of the Burning Man Project”, Burning Man website, winter.
Whiting, Sam. 1997. “A Blaze of Glory.” San Francisco Chronicle (2 September): E1-E2.
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2000-11-01
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Pike, S. M. (2000). The Burning Man Festival: Pre-Apocalypse Party or Postmodern Kingdom of God?. Pomegranate, 14(Autumn), 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.26
