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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Main Author: Singh, David Emmanuel 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2020
In: Transformation
Year: 2020, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 306-316
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
CA Christianity
NCH Medical ethics
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Covid-19
B Jama’at
B Pandemic
B saffronising
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1759-8931
Contains:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378820969729