Attitude toward Virtual Communion in Relation to Church Tradition during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

Attitude toward virtual communion was assessed among 3,300 Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Free Church clergy and laity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK in 2021. A six-item unidimensional scale (Scale of Attitude Toward Virtual Communion, SATVC) assessed attitude related to receiving communion d...

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1. VerfasserIn: Village, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2022
In: Journal of empirical theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 35, Heft: 1, Seiten: 95-117
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Großbritannien / Abendmahl / Neue Medien / COVID-19 / Pandemie
RelBib Classification:KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KBF Britische Inseln
KDA Konfessionskunde
NBP Sakramentenlehre; Sakramente
ZG Medienwissenschaft; Digitalität; Kommunikationswissenschaft
weitere Schlagwörter:B Church
B Pandemic
B online ritual
B Eucharist
B Virtual worship
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Zusammenfassung:Attitude toward virtual communion was assessed among 3,300 Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Free Church clergy and laity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK in 2021. A six-item unidimensional scale (Scale of Attitude Toward Virtual Communion, SATVC) assessed attitude related to receiving communion during online services, the necessity of priests for consecration and lay presidency of communion at home. Church tradition predicted attitude in ways that were in line with historical understandings of the Eucharist and ecclesial debates about the necessity of priests to preside over ritual. Within traditions, other factors operated in different ways, producing a complex web of interactions. Older people were more positive about virtual communion than younger ones, but mainly in Catholic traditions. Clergy were more negative in most traditions except Free Church. Having a generally conservative doctrinal stance drove Catholic and Reformed traditions in opposite directions. Liturgical stance predicted SATVC independently of doctrinal stance, and more traditional stance tended to lead to more uniformity, rather than divergence, between traditions.
ISSN:1570-9256
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of empirical theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20221430