Healing Rites of Passage (The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization)

This book examines the role of the 'fun camps' for children recovering from life-threatening illnesses, exploring how the camp experience helps to bring about healing by employing central concepts from sociology and anthropology, such as 'liminality', 'mimesis' and 'salutogenesis'.

• | Author: Peter James Kearney
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 146 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367585073
• | ISBN-13: 9780367585075