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Cultural-existential psychology : the role of culture in suffering and threat

Title
Cultural-existential psychology : the role of culture in suffering and threat / Daniel Sullivan.
Author
Sullivan, Daniel, 1940-
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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xvii, 295 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-292) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. Theory: 1. Theoretical roots of cultural-existential psychology; 2. Fundamental principles of cultural-existential psychology; 3. A model of existential threat; 4. Cultural variation as patterns of social orientation and control; 5. Cultural threat orientations: disorientation-avoidance and despair-avoidance; Part II. Research: 6. Modernization and changes in attitudes toward suffering among Kansas Mennonites; 7. Cultural threat orientations among traditionalist Mennonites, Unitarian Universalists, and college students; 8. Transcendence versus redemption in the experience of a natural disaster; Part III. Implications: 9. Cultural-existential psychology and contemporary society; Appendices: Appendix A. Guide to key abbreviations and terms; Appendix B. Data analyses, Chapter 6; Appendix C. Methodology and questionnaire items, Chapter 7; Appendix D. Data analyses, Chapter 7.
Call Number
JFE 16-5660
ISBN
  • 9781107096868
  • 1107096863
LCCN
2015044941
OCLC
932066568
Author
Sullivan, Daniel, 1940-
Title
Cultural-existential psychology : the role of culture in suffering and threat / Daniel Sullivan.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
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Type of Medium
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Type of Carrier
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-292) and index.
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