{"product_id":"9781316564172","title":"Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat","description":"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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121862000880,"sku":"9781316564172","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316564172_p0.jpg?v=1763707872","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316564172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}