White Utopias
White Utopias Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, have become massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the…
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White Utopias
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, have become massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. Lucia shows how these festivals are religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J.
Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that
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