RT Journal Article
T1 Elastic rituals: a multi-religious analysis of adaptations to the COVID-19 crisis
T2 Rituales elásticos: un análisis multi-religioso de las adaptaciones a la crisis del Covid-19
A1 Cornejo Valle, Mónica
A1 Martín Andino Martín, Ignacio Borja
AB The COVID-19 crisis truly challenged social interaction, the use of space and objects, as well as our sense of purpose and meaning in life. In this context, religious communities faced sudden interruption of their usual activities, lack of access to communal spaces and a global epidemic that summoned ancient “medieval plague” anxieties to work with. This article focuses on the vast repertoire of adaptations and reactions to the crisis that several religious communities developed in Spain. Our research is based on 40 conversations with members of Protestant and Evangelical denominations, Sunni Islam, Orthodox churches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Church of Scientology, Baha’i, Seventhday Adventist Church, Christian Science and Paganism, all of them minorities in the traditionallyCatholic country. To analyze this repertoire of adaptations we focus on three aspects: the general context of changes and challenges, the ritual adaptations and the subjective experience of the adaptations. Grace Q. Zhang’s theories on linguistic elasticity will be applied to understand the elasticity of ritual adaptations in COVID times.
PB MDPI
SN 2077-1444
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/109341
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/109341
LA eng
NO Cornejo-Valle, Monica, and Borja Martin-Andino. 2023. Elastic Rituals: A Multi-Religious Analysis of Adaptations to the COVID-19 Crisis. Religions 14: 773. https:// doi.org/10.3390/rel14060773
NO Fundación Pluralismo y Convivencia
NO Ministerio de Presidencia
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 abr 2025