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  1. The odyssey experience
    physical, social, psychological, and spiritual journeys
    Author: Smelser, Neil J.
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520943421
    RVK Categories: LB 57000 ; MR 6000
    Subjects: Insight; Introspection; Life change events; Vision quests; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Voyages and travels; Spirituelle Erfahrung; Lebensereignis; Lebensreise; Innenwelt; Transformation
    Scope: xiv, 272 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-248) and index
  2. The Odyssey Experience
    Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
    Author: Smelser, Neil J.
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  University of California Press, CA

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520943422; 9780520943421
    Subjects: Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Insight; Introspection; Life change events; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Vision quests; Voyages and travels; Insight; Introspection; Life change events; Vision quests; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Voyages and travels; Transformation; Innenwelt; Lebensreise; Lebensereignis; Spirituelle Erfahrung
    Scope: 1 online resource (287 pages)
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    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.

    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