Removing a Confederate Statue in St. Augustine, Florida
This article explores different group perceptions of history on identity and structural violence against the Black community in St. Augustine
Culture, Conflict, and Death
According to new theorizing in social psychology, the main function of culture is to alleviate anxiety caused by the awareness of our eventual death. In this framework, culture and religion offer answers to the meaning of life in the face of our mortality. Faith in ones own cultural world-view provides protection from the fear of death. If people feel that their religion or other cultural world-views are threatened by other religions or conceptions of culture they can be mobilized and seem to be ready to fight or even die for their beliefs.