Between “Essential Services” and Culpable Homicide: State Responses to Religious Organizations and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus in 2020
Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared covid -19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—a global pandemic. As this coronavirus spread throughout the world, most countries implemented restrictions on public gatherings that greatly limited religious communities’ abilit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Journal of law, religion and state
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 129-151 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
State
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
/ Infection
/ Protection magic
/ Religious practice
/ Publicity
/ Endangering
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CH Christianity and Society XA Law ZA Social sciences ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
South Korea
B essential services B Coronavirus B United States B Brazil B Religious Freedom B India |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared covid -19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—a global pandemic. As this coronavirus spread throughout the world, most countries implemented restrictions on public gatherings that greatly limited religious communities’ ability to engage in collective worship. Some religious leaders objected to these regulations, opining that faith would spare their congregants from illness or that their religious freedom is paramount to public health. Meanwhile, growing numbers of covid -19 infections were being traced back to religious leaders or gatherings. This article explores how governments have balanced freedom of worship and public health during the 2020 pandemic. Through the comparison of controversies in South Korea, India, Brazil and the United States, it highlights the paradoxes in debates about whether to hold religious communities accountable for the spread of this highly contagious and deadly disease. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-4810 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law, religion and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22124810-2020008 |