TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smelser,Neil J.
TI  - The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
SN  - 9780520943421
AV  - BF449 .O397 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Insight
KW  - Introspection
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Vision quests
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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