Transnationality, Community and the Digital

Cultural Regrouping and the Covid-19 Pandemic-A Comparative Ethnographic Case Study of a Muslim and a Hindu Community in Germany

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ID3137360
AuthorsGero Menzel (0009-0005-7819-5527, Goethe University Frankfurt), Viera Pirker (0000-0002-6971-8905, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume16
Issue2
Pages119
Publication date2025-01-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel16020119
OpenAlexW4406766376
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

In this article, we discuss the results of two ethnographic case studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a Sunni Muslim DITIB mosque community and an Indian Hindu temple community in Hesse, Germany, conducted in the context of the ReCoVirA research project. The two cases were selected to represent established and less established religious communities. We connect our research to the RSST-Approach to understand the proactive aspect of religious communities and the concept of the refiguration of religion to describe the impacts of the shift to the digital during the pandemic on religious communities. Cultural regrouping emerges as a framework for understanding the changes to the observed socio-religious milieu and diaspora communities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Ethnography · Geography · Hinduism · Outbreak · Pandemic · Sociology · Transnationality · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Medicine · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Religious studies · Virology

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