Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats /

Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats /

Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standar...

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Author / Creator: Wuthnow, Robert.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Emergency management.
Threats.
Fear > Social aspects.
Terrorism > Social aspects.
Terrorism > Psychological aspects.
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Epidemics > Psychological aspects.
Global warming > Social aspects.
Global warming > Psychological aspects.
Nuclear weapons > Social aspects.
Nuclear weapons > Psychological aspects.
Weapons of mass destruction > Psychological aspects.
Weapons of mass destruction > Social aspects.
Weapons of mass destruction.
Psychological aspects.
Nuclear weapons.
Global warming.
Epidemics.

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