Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings

Katri Ratia is a Researcher in the Science of Religion unit of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interests include vernacular and alternative forms of religion, material culture, and ritual studies.

1 Welcome Home!

2 The Hipstory of Rainbow Gatherings

3 Rainbow Rising Over Europe

4 Tall Trees, Warm Fire: The Rainbow Camp

5 Let the Circle Be Open, but Unbroken: Communal Practices

6 Deep Inside My Heart I Got This Everlasting Love: Rainbow Folklore

7 Our Magic Is the Give-Away, Our Magic Is the Song: Rainbow as Counterculture

8 Mother Earth Gives Us Birth: Rainbow as Vernacular Religion

9 This Is Celebration, This Is Sacred: Rainbow and the Transcendent

10 See You in Five Minutes!

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