Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kapoor, Vikram; Belk, Russell W.; Goulding, Christina

doi:10.1177/07439156221081485

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“…The digital transformations of religion and spirituality, that has been accelerated because of the pandemics, will certainly attract more attention. I read with much interest Kapoor et al (2022) investigation of Indian religious rituals during the pandemics. Some of the changes brought by Covid are here to stay.…”

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Researching the sacred: a conversation with Samuelson Appau, Russ Belk and Diego Rinallo

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Purpose Once the domain of theologians, sociologists and (religion) anthropologists, we have seen more recently how consumer researchers have enriched the study of spirituality and religion. Researching the sacred can be fraught with challenges, in and out of the field. Russell Belk, Samuelson Appau and Diego Rinallo address key questions, issues and conceptualisations in the scholarship on sacred consumption, contemplating the past and mapping future research avenues. A reading list is also included for those interested in joining the authors in this collective discovery of the sacred. Design/methodology/approach Contributors answered the following four questions: How has the study of sacred consumption evolved since you started researching the field? What would be the critical methodological issues that researchers need to consider when approaching the “sacred”? What are some of the key authors that have influenced your thinking? What do you think will be the key questions that researchers will need to focus on? Findings Rinallo, Belk and Appau’s reflections on studying the sacred provide food for thought for both novice and weathered researchers alike. Researching the sacred both shapes and is shaped by our positionality: by our insider/outsider status, our gender and race and our cosmovisions as believers or sceptics. Researchers should be mindful and reflective of their subject positionings as they approach, enter and leave the field. Researching the sacred requires an open mind as we broaden our vision of what constitutes the sacred. Such research calls for scholarly as well as phenomenological curiosity. Reading widely and across disciplines to better familiarise ourselves with our sacred context helps to craft novel and meaningful research. Originality/value This paper provides a multivocal genealogy of consumer culture work on religion and spirituality, methodological advice and reading resources for researchers.

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“…Furthermore, more specialized inquiries provide insights into the execution of religious rituals through social media platforms (Åhman & Thorén, 2021;Anwar & Mujib, 2022;Eken, 2020;Ferguson et al, 2021). However, the predominant trend in recent years within digital ritual studies in DRS has been an exploration of how religions grapple with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic (Ben-Lulu, 2021;Cornejo-Valle and Martin-Andino, 2023;Huygens, 2021;Jacobi et al, 2022;Kapoor et al, 2022;Lorea, 2020). This predominant thematic orientation towards COVID-19 can be understood as a response to the limitations imposed by lockdown periods, wherein individuals are deprived of physical spaces to engage in their religious rituals.…”

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Framing the Study of Digital Religion: Waves of Academic Research, Theoretical Approaches and Themes

ERGEN

2023

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The phenomenon of “digital religion” has emerged as a research field over the past quarter century as religious experiences integrate into the digital sphere. Within this field, researchers have adopted various theoretical frameworks and empirical methodologies to illuminate the complex dynamics that arise from the interaction between digital culture and religion. However, the existing literature on this topic is characterized by fragmentation, which makes a comprehensive understanding of its trajectory difficult. This fragmentation is particularly noticeable in the absence of a coherent narrative that outlines the field’s development. This study aims to provide a scholarly framework for understanding the trajectory of Digital Religion Studies (DRSs), encompassing successive waves of academic research, theoretical paradigms, and thematic foci. This study provides a qualitative assessment of existing literature on the relationship between digital culture and religion through a comprehensive review. A thorough literature review reveals that research in the field of digital religion can be classified into four distinct phases: descriptive, categorical, theoretical, and integrative. The prominent theoretical frameworks that have emerged media ecology, mediation, mediatization, religious-social shaping of technology (RSST), and hypermediation. Finally, the thematic categorization of research primarily revolves around topics, such as rituals, authenticity, identity, community, authority, and embodiment.

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“…9 The practice of religious rituals gives interpersonal new experiences to COVID-19 sufferers. 10 This is because religion is the center of morality that guides its followers to carry out ethical and consistent actions. Individuals with high religious awareness tend to have a better level of compliance.…”

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Religious Interpretation, Well Being, and Formation of Religious Attitudes On Covid-19 Survivors

Setiawan¹,

Muttaqin²

2022

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This article explains the attitude of social groups who have been declared exposed to the Covid-19 virus and are undergoing isolation facilitated by the government for 6-10 days until they are declared cured. Because they undergo quarantine with strict controls, they leave their main obligations as family breadwinners or professional workers. In a situation that is completely restricted, they have no alternative but to accept and undergo all procedures and stages of quarantine until they are completed. The article data comes from several Covid-19 patients participating in quarantine in Banyumas district in February 2022. Using a sociological approach and religious interpretation, the attitude of accepting the quarantine situation points to two things, first, religion is present in people who experience powerlessness as a result of the dysfunction of science and technology. Second, in this situation of powerlessness, religion is present to offer solutions that are beyond reality or transcendental. From these two situations, the social groups participating in the Covid-19 quarantine gave rise to religious attitudes which in the perspective of religious interpretation are understood as the practice of the teachings of gratitude, patience, trustworthiness, prayer, wisdom, and ihtiyar.

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Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 13 publications

References 66 publications

Researching the sacred: a conversation with Samuelson Appau, Russ Belk and Diego Rinallo

Researching the sacred: a conversation with Samuelson Appau, Russ Belk and Diego Rinallo

Framing the Study of Digital Religion: Waves of Academic Research, Theoretical Approaches and Themes

Religious Interpretation, Well Being, and Formation of Religious Attitudes On Covid-19 Survivors

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