COVID-19 and Religious Ethics (original) (raw)

COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE MORAL VALUES IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

Afkar: Jurnal Akidah & Pemikiran Islam, Special Issue on COVID -19, 2022

Religious beliefs have always been the stimulating motives for human behavior. Man's need for religion is not specified to a certain era in time. Rather, it extends over all the times and eras; as a man still invokes religion in the face of ever-rising challenges. One of the most serious of these challenges that humans constantly face is epidemics and diseases. There is no doubt that the two religions, Christianity and Islam, enjoy a high moral heritage. This study aimed to demonstrate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on societies, and the importance of Islamic and Christian values in dealing with the pandemic in different societies of the world, by reviewing and analyzing the discourse of religious scholars and priests, and through the sacred texts of the two religions, in addition to reviewing the studies that discussed the pandemic and religious values. The study explained how the Islamic and Christian religious discourses employed morals to confront the pandemic, as they supported and emphasized the precautionary measures, such as home quarantine and social distancing. They also stressed the need for unity, cooperation and solidarity to confront the pandemic in order to preserve the security of societies.

COVID-19 and two sides of the coin of religiosity

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first appeared in China in late 2019 and since then it has become a pandemic. Various countries, in accordance with their cultures, have adopted different approaches to deal with the spread of this disease. The dimensions of this disease and its global spread are such that it will certainly have enormous effects on various aspects of human life for many years. One of these issues is examining the approach of religious countries in dealing with this crisis. The issue of science and religion is one of the main issues in the philosophy of religion. A historical event that human society is struggling with today is the COVID-19 crisis. The issues of religion and science were intertwined during the COVID-19 outbreak, contrary to what some thought. This shows that the opposition between religion and science is not real but aims to attack religion without a valid reason. Given the importance of the subject, this article addresses two aspects of people’s e...

Theological Reflections on the COVID-19

Theological Reflections on the COVID-19, 2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic raises a lot of questions bordering particularly on Christianity and Theology at large. In this document the author attempts to answer some of these questions and thus direct the attention of readers to what the author considers relevant during the time of the Pandemic. The document was presented at a youth seminar organised by the Youth Desk of the All African Conference of Churches (AACC-CETA) on the 9th of April, 2020

Religion and Pandemic: Shifts of Interpretation, Popular Lore, and Practices. An Introduction

Entangled Religions: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021

In this Introduction, the guest editors discuss the main themes of this special issue and relate them to the growing field of research on how the extraordinary social conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the practices of religious individuals, groups, and institutions. As we suggest here, the pandemic revealed and catalysed important trends within religious traditions and also exacerbated the issues of specific religious identities as confronted against, or negotiated with, the dominant frame of secular statecontrolled public health priorities, policies, and protocols.

COVID-19 crisis : lessons for the religious/christian life - during and after

Bible in Africa studies, 2021

This article reflects on the challenges and lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic for religious life. The aim is to share some of the exhortations based on the challenges and the transformations that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to Christians. It provides some analysis of what the crisis, an unexpected storm, has revealed to an African Christian. It approaches the topic from the views of clergy, the religious and faithful of the Catholic Church, and calls for all people to help in rebuilding the world during and after COVID-19. The lesson is to see the pandemic as an opportunity for the renewal of religious life, and for the Church. It holds that the work of rebuilding is not only for our religious communities but also for the whole human race. It is argued that the COVID-19 crisis challenges the Church and all Christians to discover afresh their prophetic vocation.

Covid-19: Why Religion Will Look Different

Newsroom, 2020

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has caused disruption on a global scale, impacting on many facets of life. Religions are invariably implicated in such times of crisis in diverse ways. But how should we think about what is taking place religiously at the present time? This short article considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of 'crisis religion', exploring ways that religions are responding and being reshaped by the disruption of this epoch-making global event. Reflecting on developments from the vantage point of New Zealand, it encourages analysis that pushes beyond commonly employed frames of reactionary, resurgent or repugnant religion.

Abuja Journal of Philosophy and Theology - vol. 11 - PANDEMIC, FAITH, AND POLITICS

Abuja Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2021

A pandemic throws up so much moral catch-22 in quick successions that every stakeholder (governments, administrators, hospital personnel, and individual persons) is confronted with lots of dilemmas that can sometimes lead to unrelenting 'moral distress'. A year on, many of us, initially scared of COVID-19, have started living our normal lives again. We are now in a post-COVID-19 era. Many churches have resumed full blast. APT 11 focuses on discussions, going forward, about our lives in the three publics – society, church, and academia - as COVID-19 loses its pandemic grip. Hopefully, these refections will help in view of the future. This will not be the end of highly infectious public health disease in the world. We struggled on various fronts at the outset of COVID-19 because we did not have contextually relevant and easily available resources on how to deal with a highly infectious disease. Who remembers any Nigerian pastor, theologian, bishop, or Catholic scholar in Nigeria who wrote or published anything for posterity after the Ebola virus pandemic in 2014? The current edition ensures that such question is not asked in the future.