Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat - 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
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 313 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 110748071X
• | ISBN-13: 9781107480711