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"Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archeological methods-including mapping, surveying, photographing, interviewing, and participant observation--to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach that draws on scholarship in archaeology, cultural anthropology, geography, and philosophy, this work in active site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences"--
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La 4e de couverture indique : « Fred Turner nous guide au coeur du festival Burning Man, véritable mythe au sein de la Silicon Valley, puis dans les locaux de Facebook, parmi les plus secrets de la planète. Ses observations nourrissent une analyse sur le nouvel usage de l'art comme outil de management et de création d'une culture d'entreprise. Acquisitions, fondations, mécénat : les entreprises utilisent depuis fort longtemps l'art pour manifester leur grandeur et leur rayonnement tant dans leurs bâtiments que dans l'espace public. Depuis quelques années, la Silicon Valley utilise l'art différemment pour créer un nouvel environnement de travail, un nouveau style de vie en entreprise, chaque salarié pouvant apporter ses émotions, son moi profond et sa créativité [...] »
Art and the Internet --- Internet --- Art and technology --- Social aspects --- Google (Firm) --- Facebook (Firm) --- Industrial management --- Corporate culture --- Working class --- Industrial recreation --- Art and society. --- Technology and the arts --- Facebook (Electronic resource) --- Recreation --- Burning Man (Festival) --- Google. --- Internet - Social aspects --- Art and technology - 21st century
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In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun. Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man's organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times.
Art festivals --- Arts festivals --- Festivals --- Management. --- Black Rock City, LLC --- Burning Man Project --- Black Rock City Limited Liability Company --- Burning Man (Festival) --- Black Rock Arts Festival --- Festivals artistiques --- burning man, community, art, self expression, united states of america, american culture, sociology, sociological, black rock desert, countercultural arts, management models, unconventional, recruitment, motivation, volunteers, managers, festivals, nevada, media coverage, regulation, regulatory organizations, criticisms, legitimacy, radical inclusion, decommodification, communal effort, civic responsibility, participation, immediacy.
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Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expression, personal transformation, eclectic spirituality, communal bonding, and cultural renewal. In this engrossing ethnography of the Burning Man phenomenon, Lee Gilmore explores why "burners" come in vast numbers to transform a temporary gathering of strangers into an enduring community. Accompanied by a DVD, which provides panoramic views of events, individuals, artworks, and, of course, the climactic final night, the book delves into the varieties of spirituality, ritual, and performance conducted within the festival space.
Ritual --- Festivals --- Burning Man (Festival) --- Black Rock Desert (Nev.) --- United States --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion --- america. --- american culture. --- american festivals. --- american media. --- art. --- black rock desert. --- burners. --- burning man. --- communal bonding. --- community. --- contemporary america. --- demographic studies. --- desert setting. --- effigy. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- festival culture. --- festival events. --- festival space. --- fire. --- historical. --- illustrated. --- mecca. --- modern history. --- nevada. --- nonfiction. --- pilgrimage. --- self expression. --- spiritual journey. --- spiritual rituals. --- spirituality. --- transformation.
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cults --- joining a cult --- psychology --- serpent-handling --- fire-handling --- Christian church in the Appalachian Mountains --- Burning Man Festival --- the Neavada Desert --- Jonestown --- Peoples Temple --- the Reverend Jim Jones --- South America --- leaving cults --- growing up in a cult --- Children of God --- the Church of God --- sexuality --- Aum Shinrikyo --- Japan --- disillusionment --- sociology --- loss and betrayal --- families --- the dangers of cults --- the Unification Church --- ideology --- radical Christian cults --- Scientology --- the Church of Scientology --- therapy --- satanic cults --- communication between members and families --- Satanism --- sarin
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This book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, focus on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations, the editors examine how this is historically anchored in modernity but affected by neoliberalization and globalization of society and social life. Seemingly distant developments, such as marketization and commoditization of religion as well as legalization and securitization of social conflicts, are transforming historical expressions of 'religion' and 'religiosity' yet these changes are seldom if ever understood as forming a coherent, structured and systemic ensemble. Religion in Consumer Society develops a thorough analysis of religion as both shaped by consumer culture and as shaping consumer culture. Following an introduction critically analysing studies on consumer culture and links it to the existing scholarship in the sociology of religion, this book explores the following topics: 1. How have consumerism and electronic media shaped globalized culture, and how this is affecting religion 2. the dynamics and characteristics of often overlooked middle class religion, and how these relate to globalization with respect to differences between 'developed' and 'emerging' countries, 3. emerging trends, and how we understand phenomena as different as megachurches and holistic spiritualistic journeys, and how the pressures of consumer culture act on religious traditions, indigenous and exogenous, 4. the politics of religious phenomena in the Age of Neoliberalism, and -5. the hybrid areas emerging from these reconfigurations of religion and the market. Outlining changes in both the political-institutional and cultural spheres, the contributors offer an international overview of developments in different countries and state of the art representation of religion in the new global political economy.--Publisher
Religion --- Consumption (Economics) --- Neoliberalism. --- Religion and state. --- Religion and sociology. --- Néo-libéralisme --- Religion et Etat --- Sociologie religieuse --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire --- Neoliberalism --- Religion and state --- Religion and sociology --- Religious aspects --- Religion - History - 21st century --- Consumption (Economics) - Religious aspects --- consumerism --- ethos --- consumer society --- world religions --- religion --- individualisation --- religiosity --- modernity --- consumer adaptation --- the Church of Sweden --- religious experience --- modular religion --- Megachurches --- new monasticism --- Buddhism --- pop culture --- American Judaism --- choice and commitment in religious behaviour --- commoditised spiritualities --- commodified religion --- alternative spirituality --- consumer capitalism --- the Burning Man Festival --- the commoditisation of Tibetan Buddhism in Scotland --- neoliberalism and new age --- healing --- neospiritual therapies --- coaching --- Glastonbury
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