Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior.

Foreword; Introduction.- Part I. Innovations in Psychology lecture.- 1. Theorizing Liminality between art and life: The liminal sources of cultural experiences-Paul Stenner; Part II. Commentaries and extensions.- 2. From liminalities to limbo: thinking through semiotic elaboration.- 3. On/At the Edges of Liminality: Analytic extensions.- 4. Moral Holidays: The cases of expatriates and nightlife tourists.- 5. On the Way: Pilgrimage and liminal experience-Zachary Beckstead.- 6. Liminality in play: The role of materiality and patterns.- 7. Maintenance Art: Paul Stenner's liminality and the case of older caregiving spouses.- 8. Art therapy as a liminal, playful space: Patient experiences during a cancer rehabilitation program-Roessler, Hvidt, laCour, Mau, Graven & Assing Hvidt.- 9. "I must have contracted swine flu, bird flu or Ebola.": How patients and general practitioners negotiate liminality during consultation.- Part III. Concluding response.- 10. A feast of liminal experiences and expression.