The role of religion in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic: the Malaysian multi-faith perspectives

MM Tan, AF Musa, TT Su - Health Promotion International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Social distancing is crucial in breaking the cycle of transmission of COVID-19. However,
many religions require the faithful to congregate. In Malaysia, the number of COVID-19 …

Religious construction of disease: An exploratory appraisal of religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda

AP Isiko - Journal of African Studies and Development, 2020 - academicjournals.org
This article presents empirical analysis of religious attitudes and interpretation of pandemics
in Uganda. The study sought to analyze the religious explanatory models of pandemics …

Religion and faith perception in a pandemic of COVID-19

O Kowalczyk, K Roszkowski, X Montane… - Journal of religion and …, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted religion and faith in different ways. Numerous
restrictions have been implemented worldwide. Believers are in conflict with authorities' …

Coronavirus pandemic and spirituality in southwest Nigeria: A sociological analysis

OY Olonade, CO Adetunde, OS Iwelumor, MI Ozoya… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic outbreak is wreaking much havoc across the globe,
with many nations shutting down their economy and social life with the hope of flattening the …

Negotiating safety and wellbeing: The collaboration between faith-based communities and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic

S El-Majzoub, L Narasiah, A Adrien, D Kaiser… - Journal of religion and …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdown measures where congregational faith-based
activities were prohibited. With time, the collateral impacts of confinement emerged as …

[HTML][HTML] The Hajj and COVID-19: how the pandemic shaped the world's largest religious gathering

HT Hashim, MS Babar, MY Essar… - The American Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam, is held in Saudi Arabia in the second
week of Dhu'l-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the world's largest …

The faith community and the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak: Part of the problem or part of the solution?

J Levin - Journal of religion and health, 2020 - Springer
The current outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a critical moment in time for institutional
religion in the USA and throughout the world. Individual clergy and congregations, across …

The impact of Muslim and Christian religious leaders responding to COVID-19 in Israel

J Essa-Hadad, N Abed Elhadi Shahbari… - Frontiers in public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most significant public health
emergencies in decades and has affected all countries worldwide. Religious leaders have …

A look at the first quarantined community in the USA: Response of religious communal organizations and implications for public health during the COVID-19 pandemic

SL Weinberger-Litman, L Litman, Z Rosen… - Journal of religion and …, 2020 - Springer
The current study examined anxiety and distress among members of the first community to
be quarantined in the USA due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to being historically …