Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107480711)

Cultural psychology and experimental existential psychology are two of the fastest-growing movements in social psychology. In this book, Daniel Sullivan combines both perspectives to present a groundbreaking analysis of culture's role in shaping the psychology of threat experience. The first part of the book presents a new theoretical framework guided by three central principles: that humans are in a unique existential situation because we possess symbolic consciousness and culture; that culture provides psychological protection against threatening experiences, but also helps to create them; and that interdisciplinary methods are vital to understanding the link between culture and threat. In the second part of the book, Sullivan presents a novel program of research guided by these principles. Focusing on a case study of a traditionalist group of Mennonites in the midwestern United States, Sullivan examines the relationship between religion, community, guilt, anxiety, and the experience of natural disaster.

Author: Daniel Sullivan
ISBN-10: 110748071X
ISBN-13: 9781107480711
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2018
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d