Event Religion and European Festival Experience
Concepts and Case Studies

By (author) Sára E. Heidl

ISBN13: 9781041041351

Imprint: Routledge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 21/11/2025

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Description
This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of ‘event religion’ for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective. It features a comparison of three Hungarian case studies with different backgrounds - a mindfulness festival, a Catholic event, and a rock-metal music festival. The author suggests that examining event experiences along the four dimensions of spatiotemporality, symbols, community, and inward experience provides a conceptual framework for understanding contemporary alternative religious beliefs, behaviours, and experiences. She also utilises ‘religionesque’ as an umbrella term for the various concepts that describe religion-related experiences and approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, sociology, anthropology, and others with a focus on events and festivals.
Part I. Introduction; 1. Research Objectives and Concepts; 2. European Festival Experience; 3. Methodology and Case Studies; Part II. The Four Dimensions of Experience; 4. Spatiotemporal Dimension; 5. The Dimension of Symbols; 6. The Dimension of Community experience; 7. Inward dimension: The experience of the inner self
  • Religion: general
  • Eclectic & esoteric religions & belief systems
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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