Event Religion and European Festival Experience

This book contributes to empirical research on festivals and presents a model of 'event religion' for interpreting festival experiences from a religious studies perspective.

Sára E. Heidl is an affiliated researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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