Leisure
As expounded in the work of Turner, liminality describes the indefinable social and spiritual locations involved in religious rites of passage. This is also aperennial conceptin the study of leisure,where itis most usually identified ...
Kelly's Leisure, 3/e, offers a unique approach to the study of Leisure and Recreation by including historical and philosophical backgrounds relevant to the subject matter.
Drawing on the idea that leisure studies is a ‘language game’, Tony Blackshaw subsequently offers his own original theory of liquid leisure which asks some key questions about the present and the future of leisure in people’s lives, ...
This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world.
In leisure, man too celebrates the end of his work by allowing his inner eye to dwell for a while upon the reality of the Creation. He looks and he affirms: it is good. Now the highest form of affirmation is the festival; ...
Leisure
Leisure: Theory and Policy
Interdisciplinary research monograph on historical and theoretical trends and social policy issues relating to leisure - discusses the definition and relations with industrialization, modernization, urbanization, computerization, mass media ...
Leisure: A Suburban Study