Memoirs of a Halloween Enthusiast
Franck, Kaja
(2024)
Memoirs of a Halloween Enthusiast.
Journal for the Study of Religious Experience (JSRE), 10 (1).
pp. 47-51.
ISSN 2057-2301
Halloween is growing in popularity in the United Kingdom. This is a personal reflection on the importance of Halloween as a tradition on both an individual and community level, based on memories of Halloween from childhood into adulthood. It proposes that in popular culture Halloween can be read as increasingly removed from the religious or the spiritual. On an individual basis that can be experienced as a secular ritual centred around performance, dress up and adopted alternative personas.
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Additional information | © 2024 Journal for the Study of Religious Experience. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords | halloween; tradition; childhood; memories; imagination |
Date Deposited | 04 Jun 2025 10:30 |
Last Modified | 04 Jun 2025 10:30 |