Spiritual Festivals as Embodied Sites of Becoming ‘Porous Selves’
Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion June 6, 2025 Toomas Gross 2 citations
Contemporary spiritual festivals attract heterogeneous crowds of adherents of emergent religions, practitioners and aficionados of fringe knowledge, self-seekers, and many others. Focusing on the ethnographic context of Estonia, this paper approaches such festivals as occasions of self-transformation, where festival participants collectively engage in various practices that encourage them to...