TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wuthnow,Robert
TI  - Be very afraid: the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats 
SN  - 0199730873
AV  - HV551.2 .W88 2010
U1  - 303.485 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Threats
KW  - Fear
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Weapons of mass destruction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Perilous times -- The nuclear-haunted era -- What to mobilize against -- Waging war on terror -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Panics and pandemics -- Environmental catastrophe -- Setting a new agenda -- The call for action -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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 standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description
ER  -