Odyssey Experience

Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys

AvNeil J. Smelser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

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 topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. "The Odyssey Experience" thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-05
Mått:140 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520258976

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis, Problematics of Sociology, and Social Paralysis and Social Change, all from UC Press.

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"This book displays the integrative capacity and the sweeping vista resulting from a mature scholar's lifetime of learning." Journal American Academy Of Religion/ Jaar

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