COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown and Religious Mediatization of Social Sustainability. A Case Study of Romania

Tudor, Mihaela Alexandra; Benea, Anamaria Filimon; Bratosin, Stefan

doi:10.3390/ijerph18052287

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“…However, even though religious authorities were forced to mediate their content, this did not necessarily lead to a complete submission to the logics of the media. Rather, the church as an institution also resisted the forces of the media (Tudor et al, 2021), as we also see in our study.…”

Section: Mediatization In the Funeral Industrysupporting

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Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Gotved

Gould²,

Klastrup³

2023

MedieKultur

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This article focuses on the mediatization of funeral practices and customer relations in a business with human care and contact at its centre: the funeral industry. We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on the use of digital media in a comparative study of the deathcare sector in Australia and Denmark. Using surveys within the national funeral industries, qualitative interviews with funeral directors, and news media archives for 2020–2021, we identify four areas of mediatization: adaptations of specific technologies; interactions with the bereaved; transformations of funeral rites; and communications beyond the funeral service. In conclusion, we suggest that the mediatization process is a negotiation of, on the one hand, the need and growing demand for digital media into a traditions-bound business, and on the other hand, the funeral directors’ wish to care for the bereaved families through tactile, in-person relationships and emotional support.

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Section: Mediatization In the Funeral Industrysupporting

confidence: 68%

Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Gotved

Gould²,

Klastrup³

2023

MedieKultur

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“…The focus was on how the digital switchover was implemented by the churches during the months of closure. American research (Campbell 2020a(Campbell , 2020b(Campbell , 2020c has also been supplemented with European analyzes (Przywara et al 2021;Rončáková 2021;Tudor et al 2021). The present study explains the Hungarian situation, highlighting the generational differences in the behavior of believers.…”

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Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Andok

2021

Religions

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The present study shows how Hungarian churches and religious communities responded to the physical closure and relocation to online spaces in the spring of 2020, since while physical gates became closed, digital gates became opened. In the churches, work began in two directions with particular intensity. On the one hand, they organized their online appearance. On the other hand, they began to rethink their theological reflections on the possibilities of digital technology. The study also analyses both the event- and community-based presence of the churches as well as what they broadcast to their believers. The intention was to find the answer to what the presence of the camera meant in the process of live broadcasting, with a special focus on the visual elements and procedures that differed from the visual perception of real presence during streaming: the camera movement, the different viewing angles, the location of the cameras, the cut, and the sound quality. In other words, the believers had a new visual experience, an optical representation of reality, which afforded them a new type of interactivity and participation. In addition, the study highlights the generational differences that can be explored in digital transitions.

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“…A large community of migrant workforce in the Western Europe (over three million citizens), who massively returned home when the pandemic began, made Romania unique among the countries in European Union. Additional hurdles challenged the implementation of the protective measures: intrinsic weaknesses of the national healthcare system (e.g., aging infrastructure, low national health expenditure, and reported corruption), and one of the most religious populations in Europe ( 37 , 38 ). Most Romanians identify themselves as Orthodox Christian, a highly conservative denomination, which was slow to react during this crisis ( 39 ).…”

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Suicidality Related to the COVID-19 Lockdown in Romania: Structural Equation Modeling

Panfil¹,

Lungeanu

Tamasan³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundSuicidality is a serious public health concern at a global scale. Suicide itself is considered to be preventable death; worldwide, suicide rates and their trends are under constant scrutiny. As part of the international COMET-G cross-sectional study, we conducted a national level investigation to examine the individual disturbances (such as anxiety, depression, or history of life-threatening attempts) and contextual factors (such as adherence to conspiracy theories or Internet use) associated with suicidality related to the COVID-19 lockdown in a lot of Romanian adults.Participants and MethodsOne thousand four hundred and forty-six adults responded to an anonymous on-line questionnaire, with mean age ± standard deviation of 47.03 ± 14.21 years (1,142 females, 292 males, 12 identified themselves as non-binary). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling (SEM).ResultsUnivariate analysis showed strong significant correlation between anxiety and depression scorings among the respondents (Spearman R = 0.776, p < 0.001). Both the suicidality scorings and the Internet use correlated fairly with anxiety and depression, with two-by-two Spearman coefficients between R = 0.334 and R = 0.370 (p < 0.001 for each). SEM analysis substantiated the emotional disturbances, previous life-threatening attempts, and younger age as significant predictors for suicidality. The patterns of reality reading (including religious inquiries, Internet use, and beliefs in conspiracy theories) did not reach the statistical significance as influential factors in the suicidality of these respondents. There was no covariance between the Internet use and belief in conspiracy theories.ConclusionThe study confirmed the suicidality risk initially hypothesized as being associated with the history of life-threatening attempts, increased depression within the younger population, and higher anxiety during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related lockdown. National strategies for effective interventions at various levels of the healthcare system should be developed.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown and Religious Mediatization of Social Sustainability. A Case Study of Romania

Cited by 12 publications

References 114 publications

Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Covid-19 and the mediatization of the funeral industry in Australia and Denmark

Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Suicidality Related to the COVID-19 Lockdown in Romania: Structural Equation Modeling

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