1st Edition
Event Religion and European Festival Experience Concepts and Case Studies
By Sára E. Heidl
Copyright 2026
248 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
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
Biography
Sára E. Heidl is an affiliated researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria.
