Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The goal of this pilot study is to investigate expressions of the collective disquiet of people in the first months of Covid-19 pandemic, and to try to understand how they manage covert risk, especially with religion and magic. Four co-authors living in early hot spots of the pandemic speculate on t...
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| description | The goal of this pilot study is to investigate expressions of the collective disquiet of people in the first months of Covid-19 pandemic, and to try to understand how they manage covert risk, especially with religion and magic. Four co-authors living in early hot spots of the pandemic speculate on the roles of science, religion, and magic, in the latest global catastrophe. They delve into the consolidation that should be occurring worldwide because of a common, viral enemy, but find little evidence for it. They draw parallels to biblical works, finding evidence of a connection between plague and “social strife.” They explore changes in the purviews of science, religion, and magic, and how and why they have changed, as three systems of covert risk management. They speculate on the coming wave of grief when the world populations finally decide that too many people have died, and they envision cultural changes on the other side of the pandemic, to lifestyles, travel, reverse urbanization, and living and working in smaller communities. Using an unusual approach named “crowd-sourced ethnography”, they conduct un-traditional ethnography and speculate on management of covert risk in their native countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-05e85e5148b045369405422ea39fc2912022-12-21T23:34:12ZengSciendoStudia Humana2299-05182021-02-0110111710.2478/sh-2021-0001Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 PandemicRappaport Margaret Boone0Corbally Christopher1Campa Riccardo2Norman Ziba3The Human Sentience Project, LLC, 400 E. Deer’s Rest Place, Tucson, Arizona USA 85704Vatican Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA 85721Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 Street, 31-044Cracow, PolandUniversity College London, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL London, EnglandThe goal of this pilot study is to investigate expressions of the collective disquiet of people in the first months of Covid-19 pandemic, and to try to understand how they manage covert risk, especially with religion and magic. Four co-authors living in early hot spots of the pandemic speculate on the roles of science, religion, and magic, in the latest global catastrophe. They delve into the consolidation that should be occurring worldwide because of a common, viral enemy, but find little evidence for it. They draw parallels to biblical works, finding evidence of a connection between plague and “social strife.” They explore changes in the purviews of science, religion, and magic, and how and why they have changed, as three systems of covert risk management. They speculate on the coming wave of grief when the world populations finally decide that too many people have died, and they envision cultural changes on the other side of the pandemic, to lifestyles, travel, reverse urbanization, and living and working in smaller communities. Using an unusual approach named “crowd-sourced ethnography”, they conduct un-traditional ethnography and speculate on management of covert risk in their native countries.https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2021-0001pandemiccovid-19riskreligionmagic“science and religion”ethnographyculture changedemographic change |
| spellingShingle | Rappaport Margaret Boone Corbally Christopher Campa Riccardo Norman Ziba Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic Studia Humana pandemic covid-19 risk religion magic “science and religion” ethnography culture change demographic change |
| title | Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic |
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| title_short | Science and Religion Shift in the First Three Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | science and religion shift in the first three months of the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | pandemic covid-19 risk religion magic “science and religion” ethnography culture change demographic change |
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