Religious Responses to a Pandemic
Explanation, Compliance, and Defiance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme Lang (City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-49 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.19456 |
| OpenAlex | W4280583585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
During historic plagues some religious advocates attributed a plague to the actions of a deity, and this claim has also been applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most contemporary religious leaders and believers, however, accepted secular analysis of the pandemic, and complied, to varying degrees, with public health restrictions and remedies. But some religious leaders and groups defied these measures and had much higher rates of infections and deaths than the general population. Case studies of selected groups can expand our knowledge of these impacts and reactions. I focus especially on Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, two insular religious subcultures which have disparaged the sciences and tried to maximize their autonomy and cultural separateness from the surrounding society. Both internal and contextual factors are important in understanding their reactions to the pandemic
Ancient history · Autonomy · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Judaism · Pandemic · Plague (disease · Political science · Population · Public health · Religious belief · Sociology · Demography · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |