Digital Scholarship - UNLV

The Las Vegas phenomenon

Digital Scholarship - UNLV May 29, 2019 Juliet Reubens

This thesis supposes that people gambling in Las Vegas are engaged in religious-like and transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors. Those which are religious-like are categorized into separate groups. These separate groups are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent section in my thesis. The transformative experiences,...