Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance
This introduction opens a collection of seven articles which investigate how religious communities negotiate demands for physical distance induced by governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in accord with their religious and spiritual aspirations to establish presence and togetherness. Groun...
| Publié dans: | Religion |
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| Auteurs: | ; ; ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Numéro: 2, Pages: 177-198 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Covid-19
/ Pandémie
/ Pratique religieuse
/ Communauté religieuse
/ Sensualité
/ Proximité
/ Distance
/ Nouveaux médias
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse TK Époque contemporaine ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
ritual temporality
B religion and senses B religion and media B Médiation B Sacred Space B innovative religiosities B pandemic ritual B Covid-19 Pandemic |
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| Résumé: | This introduction opens a collection of seven articles which investigate how religious communities negotiate demands for physical distance induced by governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in accord with their religious and spiritual aspirations to establish presence and togetherness. Grounded in ethnography and media analysis, our contributors offer studies on Pentecostal healing, Mormon eschatology, Hindu diasporic rituals, Chinese spirit mediums, the virtual Burning Man festival, Sufi sonic meditations, and televised Shia Muslim mourning. These studies collectively demonstrate that in pandemic rituals (1) Media are reflexive and enchanted; (2) The religious sensorium is sticky and lingers in embodied and mnemonic ways even under new circumstances of mediation; (3) Space and time emerge as modular, transposable, condensed, yet expanding. Ritual innovations can provoke new kinds of mediations, sensory engagements, and temporal-spatial arrangements, while revealing continuities with pre-pandemic cosmologies, theologies, liturgies, and social hierarchies, and relying on memories of previous ritual sensory experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2022.2061701 |