Practicing Religion during a Pandemic: On Religious Routines, Embodiment, and Performativity

This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore how these Catholic believers manage to stay in touch with their faith and faith community in times of crisis when physical and real-life contact...

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Main Author: Huygens, Eline (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B Lived Religion
B Religious Practices
B Belgium
B Covid-19
B Roman Catholic women
B Roman Catholicism
B Digital Religion
B materiality of religion
B religion and embodiment
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