Worship and the virus in Hindu India: Contested innovation, polarization, uneven digital acceleration

The religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hindu India were manifold and, at times, publicly contested, which raises the question of which societal differences became visible and were augmented as the pandemic unfolded. Based on observations mainly from the first coronavirus wave in 2020, t...

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Main Author: Frøystad, Kathinka 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 5-22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B India / Hinduism / COVID-19 (Disease) / Pandemic / Ritual / Innovation / Polarization / Digitalization / History 2020-2021
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
TK Recent history
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Corona jihad
B Kali
B Polarization
B Hindu Nationalism
B Ramayana
B Lockdown
B Coronasur
B pandemic curfew
B Covid-19
B ritual innovation
B Digital Religion
B Corona Devi
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