Twister is a "she" and she has been on vacation. (Yep, you can do that while you're writing a thesis). I value and appreciate all of your advice and criticism. It is true that my questions are kind of vague. I was not going to base my thesis on your answers. I have already done my homework by readin...

Danke!

I've been there and the people who wrote about it have been there many times. Hockett 7, Doherty who wrote "This is Burning Man" 9 years. We may differ on this, but I don't know what's so bad about writing about it. Harvey said in 1994: "We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to ind...

Ok, then: So there are scholars (Jeremy Hockett and Sarah Pike for example) who are claiming that in this age of reflexive modernity our understanding of and our relation towards religion is changing. That apart from the institutionalized places for making spiritual and life-changing experiences, bo...

Thanks for your help, BBS! I think I'll dedicate a whole chapter to the deep insights you've given me!

Dear People out there! I study Cultural Anthropology and I am writing my master’s thesis on Burning Man with reference to ritual, New Religious Movements and Counterculture. In order to avoid turning the Burning Man experience into something dry and theoretical I have created a questionnaire which I...

Dear People out there, I study Cultural Anthropology and I am writing my master’s thesis on Burning Man with reference to ritual, New Religious Movements and Counterculture. In order to avoid turning the Burning Man experience into something dry and theoretical I have created a questionnaire which I...