Abstract
Abstract This chapter briefly discusses the universal need for meaning in life and its study and the challenges of the post-modern sociocultural context in this regard. The chapter presents the purpose of this edited volume, which is to better understand processes of search for meaning in life as embedded within a cultural context. The Israeli cultural scene thus serves as a case study for unravelling the interplay of psychological and cultural processes in wo(man)’s search for meaning in life in a variety of contemporary manifestations. The chapter then provides an overview of the unique cultural characteristics of Israeli society that are related to processes involved in the search for meaning and purpose in life. A brief description of Israeli society is provided, as well as a discussion of three major characteristics that strongly affect, intensify, and exacerbate such processes: the existential focus, the predicament of identity, and the salience of core dialectic worldviews. The chapter also introduces the volume’s parts and chapters and provides a conceptual connection and organization to bind them all together.
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