Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Odyssey ExperienceCondition: NewEAN: 9780520258976ISBN: 9780520258976Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/05/2009Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Neil J. SmelserLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual JourneysISBN-10: 0520258975Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Odyssey Experience
Title: The Odyssey Experience
EAN: 9780520258976
ISBN: 9780520258976
Release Date: 03/05/2009
Release Year: 2009
Subtitle: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
ISBN-10: 0520258975
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 286 Pages
Publication Name: Odyssey Experience : Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Personal Growth / General, Sociology / General, Spiritual, Comparative Religion, Essays & Travelogues
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Neil J. Smelser
Subject Area: Travel, Religion, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
