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The odyssey experience : physical, social, psychological, and spiritual journeys / Neil J. Smelser.
LIBRA BF449.5 .S64 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smelser, Neil J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insight.
- Introspection.
- Life change events.
- Vision quests.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Voyages and travels.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Smelser draws together studies of an astonishing range of diverse topics and subsumes them under a single, coherent, powerful, and overarching concept-the odyssey experience. I believe his book will lead to the establishment of an entirely new field of study in the social and behavioral sciences, one that will open up new and promising lines of theory and research that until now have not been possible."
- Contents:
- The essentials of the experience
- Autobiographical roots : some personal odysseys
- Religious foundations and their derivatives
- Secularized and commercialized odysseys
- Some miscellaneous, more or less invented experiences
- Some coercive odyssey experiences
- Additional theoretical reflections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520258976
- 0520258975
- 9780520075993
- 0520075994
- 9780520075986
- 0520075986
- OCLC:
- 261204369
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