A Brief Comparative Study between the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church regarding (Online) Religious Worship during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3539296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agnos-Millian Herțeliu (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1353 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14111353 |
| OpenAlex | W4388265070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed entire social levels. Organized religion is one of those levels, having suffered a lot due to the closing of churches and the automatic physical cessation of religious services. Both the weekly practitioners and those attending church minimally (say at Easter and Christmas) felt the shock of the closing of the churches. As such, the online environment was the saving option during the pandemic. However, not all churches embraced the move of liturgical services to online from the start, and at the same time, not all churches had a rich history of using digital technologies or the Internet for religious purposes. In this context, I investigate how religious communities succeeded in dealing with the imposed governmental regulations on social distance. I follow the specific religious rituals that have suffered the most by moving liturgy online, rituals such as baptism, Eucharist, burial, etc. Because different Christian churches understand rituals and liturgical practices in different ways, I focus specifically on a succinct comparison between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the neo-Protestant environment, especially the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In addition, I briefly extend the comparison to Adventist communities from the diaspora-especially those from London, the United Kingdom
Baptism · Christian Church · Christianity · Eucharist · Liturgy · Political science · Prayer · Sociology · Theology · Worship · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Aesthetic Formations
News coverage of Christian churches and other religious bodies dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic
News coverage of the Church dealing with the pandemic
The image of Christian churches in the Slovak and Czech media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Mediatization Cartography
Lockdown worship in the Church of England
Perceived Changes of Attitudes and Behaviors of Seventh-Day Adventists During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Romanian Religious Media Landscape
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
The anthropology of media and the question of ethnic and religious pluralism
Mediation and immediacy
Virtual Religion and Duality of Religious Spaces
The Media Rituals
Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic
Media and the senses in the making of religious experience
Live-streaming the goddess in the times of Covid-19
Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary-Digital Media Use and Generational Differences
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |