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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smelser, Neil J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Voyages and travels.
Vision quests.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Life change events.
Introspection.
Insight.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
journeys.
Voyages.
Quêtes de visions.
Évenements stressants de la vie.
Life Change Events
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:9780520943421

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