New Zealand Religious Community Responses to COVID-19 While Under Level 4 Lockdown
Theis Oxholm1, Catherine Rivera2, Kearly Schirrman3
1Religion and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Abstract:
Social scientific research into the impact of COVID-19 on religious communities is emergent. This research combines interview data (n = 12) collected, as New Zealand moved into Level 3-Restrict and then Level 4-Lockdown, with Facebook and online news media analysis to understand how religious leaders and their communities responded to COVID-19. Our data found four challenges: (1) The requirement to reassess worship practices, (2) the need to mitigate any potential for community transmission, (3) significant difficulties related to social distancing for communal religious practices, and lastly, (4) welfare and pastoral concerns for congregations and others in need.
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