Date of Award
Spring 2019
Thesis Type
Rollins Access Only
Degree Name
Honors Bachelor of Arts
Sponsor
Todd French
Committee Member
Amy Armenia
Committee Member
Mario D'Amato
Abstract
In opposition to both the cultural hegemony of a ‘mainstream’ and subcultural precedent exists straight edge, the hardcore punk-derived subculture whose practitioners abstain from drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. By way of both ethnographic work and theory of religion, this paper examines straight edge in the contemporary United States as a subculture (or lifestyle, or movement) which has come in thought and practice to resemble something which may be considered ‘religion.’
Recommended Citation
Scott, Madeleine, ""Don't Tell Me I Can't, 'Cause I Have Faith:" Questions of Religion in Contemporary American Straight Edge" (2019). Honors Program Theses. 92.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/honors/92
Rights Holder
Madeleine Jean Scott