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The Odyssey Experience Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: CA : University of California Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520943421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF449 .O397 2009
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Contents:
Subject: This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The Essentials of the Experience; 2. Autobiographical Roots: Some Personal Odysseys; 3. Religious Foundations and Their Derivatives; 4. Secularized and Commercialized Odysseys; 5. Some Miscellaneous, More or Less Invented Experiences; 6. Some Coercive Odyssey Experiences; 7. Additional Theoretical Reflections; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of.

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