Practice of Faith under COVID-19: Exceptional Cases
Included here are some cases that highlight exceptional behaviour under the novel coronavirus (CV) pandemic that cuts across religious boundaries. The Christian cases were drawn from the United States and South Korea; Islamic cases were drawn both from India and Iran; and the Hindu and Sikh cases we...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
2020
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Transformation
Année: 2020, Volume: 37, Numéro: 4, Pages: 306-316 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions BJ Islam BK Hindouisme CA Christianisme NCH Éthique médicale TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Covid-19
B Jama’at B Pandemic B saffronising |
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| Résumé: | Included here are some cases that highlight exceptional behaviour under the novel coronavirus (CV) pandemic that cuts across religious boundaries. The Christian cases were drawn from the United States and South Korea; Islamic cases were drawn both from India and Iran; and the Hindu and Sikh cases were highlighted from India. Of these, notably, Iran is a declared theocracy, whereas the United States and India are arguably contexts of rising Christian and Hindu theocracies. We are familiar with the evidence of the positive role of religions in society. This paper brings together exceptional cases where irrationality, control and selfishness trump wisdom and altruism. The evidence highlighted here shows that people are capable of suspending reason and behaving with a motive inspired by faith (often tarnished by the state’s intervention), even when it is clear there might be serious personal and social costs involved. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378820969729 |