ISBN:

• 9780805057232
• 0805057234

Edition: First edition.

Description: 320 pages

Notes:

• "Metropolitan Books."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The Archaic roots of ecstasy
• Civilization and backlash
• Jesus and Dionysus
• From the churches to the streets: the creation of carnival
• Killing carnival: reformation and repression
• A note on puritanism and military re form
• An epidemic of melancholy
• Guns against drums: imperialism encounters ecstasy
• Fascist spectacles
• The rock of rebellion
• Carnivalizing sports
• The possibility of revival.

LCCN: 2006046673

Control Number: 142336

Subjects:

• Collective behavior -- History.
• Fasts and feasts -- History.
• Festivals -- History.
• Happiness -- History.
• Spectacular, The -- History.