scholarly journals The Absence of Presence and the Presence of Absence: Social Distancing, Sacraments, and the Virtual Religious Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Parish
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Church And Community ◽  
The Relationship

The response of churches to the challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic invites a closer examination of the relationships between virtual and embodied religious communities during a time of social distancing. The speed and the scale of the closure of church buildings during Easter 2020 sheds light upon the multiplicity of practical, emotional, and spiritual responses to a relationship between church and people that is increasingly dominated by online interactions. Such a seismic shift in social culture opens up the possibility and challenges of a new understanding of belonging and participation in a religious community. Given its liturgical, pastoral, and sacramental significance, Easter 2020 was a highly charged moment for the relationship between the Christian churches and the faithful, and between religious worship and social media. In the shift from embodied community to virtual congregation that followed, the material absence of physical presence in collective worship was striking, as was the psychological presence of that absence. This paper analyses different understandings of religion, church, and community in the period of a pandemic, and argues for the value of an approach that situates the debates spawned in the context of historical precedent, personal experience, and theoretical approaches to networks, communities, religion, and social media.

scholarly journals Deconstructing the Seven Cs of Social Media: A Summative Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (03) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonica Rautela ◽  
Tarun Kumar Singhal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Firm Resources ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Relationship

<p>One of the defining technological forces which are reshaping world today is the easy accessibility to the Internet. The Internet has changed the way people communicate with each other. Social media whose development was first marshaled by Web 2.0, has revolutionized the entire world of communication. The most intriguing fact is that the world of social media is constantly changing. The platforms which are topping the charts today may not be tomorrow. Also, it can be observed that the power has shifted from the hands of marketers to the hands of users which in turn have empowered users. The objective of the present study is to explore the different facets of social media in detail. These facets form the base for the world of social media and can be referred to as the 7 Cs of social media. These seven Cs are - content, community, conversation, capital (social), culture, collaboration, and conversion respectively. With an enhanced understanding of all these Cs of social media, the study proposes a conceptual model depicting the relationship between these seven Cs and social media. Companies should analyze each of these Cs in detail and design their social media strategies accordingly. This will not only assure the efficient and effective use of social media but also will help managers to decide where and how to allot firm resources in a better fashion.</p>

Stuck in the Middle: The Inspector for Religious Denominations as Mediator between the Religious Community and the Early Communist Romanian State

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-147
Author(s):  
Anca Șincan
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Belief System ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Communist State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between state and religious denominations in communist Romania was mediated, supervised and enforced among others by a member of the state administration—the local inspector for religious denominations. Inherited from the Soviet practice this position is new in the state apparatus. The present article offers an overview of the particularities of the inspector’s work. Constantly moving between the requirements of his position, his communist orthodoxy and his own belief system and world view he had a difficult task of going between the state administration and the religious communities and make the policies and regulations of the totalitarian state palatable and enforceable. A sounding board for state policies whose applicability they tested in the field they were the last link of the newly designed relationship between the communist state and religious denominations.

China and the True Jesus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
True Jesus Church ◽  
The Relationship

This book examines the dynamic between charisma and organization in the history of the True Jesus Church, China’s first major native church, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The True Jesus Church is one of the earliest Chinese expressions of charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity, now the dominant mode of twenty-first-century Chinese Christianity. The book argues that the charismatic mode of Christianity is not merely a reflection of native religious traditions or conditions of socioeconomic deprivation, but a powerful tool for organizing and sustaining community. The book’s chapters explore the relationship between charismatic experience and collective action from a variety of different angles, including transnational communications and transportation technology, the context for charismatic religious experience, women’s agency in patriarchal religious traditions, Christian churches during the Maoist era, clandestine culture, civil society groups, and the relationship between religion and the state from imperial times to the present. Although existing scholarship on global influences within modern Chinese history has tended to focus on elites such as political leaders or well-known intellectuals, this history illuminates global networks of interaction and exchange at the grassroots. Throughout the turbulent modern era, women and men of the True Jesus Church faced situations and made choices that highlight shifts and tensions within Chinese society on a human scale. Their various collective responses to the concerns of their day highlight the significance of charismatic religious community as a resource for empowerment and agency.

scholarly journals Sumbangan Pemikiran Etika Global Hans Kung Demi Terwujudnya Perdamaian Dan Relevansinya Bagi Indonesia (Critical Discourse Analysis Terhadap Naskah Etika Global)

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Darmin Suhanda
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Ethical Foundation ◽  
Hans Küng ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Analysis

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this research is to describe Hans Kung Global Ethics, to describe the contribution of Hans Kung Global Ethics for the realization of peace and the interesting relevance of Hans Kung Global Ethics for peace in Indonesia. The background of the research carried out by the researcher is to find the meaning of an unconditional ethical foundation in Hans Kung's discourse in the Global Ethics Manuscript so that its relevance to peace in Indonesia has recently been struggling in religious conflicts.The research method used by researchers in this study is to use a qualitative approach with Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis method. The method of critical discourse analysis is reading / interpreting the intrinsic and extrinsic meaning sentence by sentence of the Hans Kung Global Ethics manuscript by paying attention to the relationship between parts and sentences and analyzing the context and history.The results of the research analysis of the Global Ethics text are that the author finds the ethical foundation of each religion that is determined by religions as a consensus. Global ethics cannot necessarily be used to solve all problems, but this foundation can be used as a basis for action by religious communities in the midst of the world and especially in the midst of Indonesia. Conflicts that destroy the image of peace in Indonesia must be the reason that it is a necessity of the religious community, and the result is suffering. Religious people who are conflicted because of differences in dogmas realize that this weak point is not something that must be debated and contested, if one another still considers the presence of differences as taboo, then the result will be conflict between religious communities. There can be no survival without a basic ethic, and there can be no peace in Indonesia without peace between religions. And there can be no religious peace without dialogue between religions.

scholarly journals Mediatizing the Holy Community—Ultra-Orthodoxy Negotiation and Presentation on Public Social-Media

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Nakhi Mishol-Shauli ◽  
Oren Golan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Media Platform

In recent years, media theorists stress macroscopic relations between digital communications and religion, through the framing of mediatization theory. In these discussions, media is conceptualized as a social institution, which influences religious establishments and discourse. Mediatization scholars have emphasized the transmission of meanings and outreach to individuals, and the religious-social shaping of technology. Less attention has been devoted to the mediatization of the religious community and identity. Accordingly, we asked how members of bounded religious communities negotiate and perform their identity via public social media. This study focuses on public performances of the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, rhetorically and symbolically expressed in groups operating over WhatsApp, a mobile instant messaging and social media platform. While a systematic study of instant messaging has yet to be conducted on insular-religious communities, this study draws upon an extensive exploration of over 2000 posts and 20 interviews conducted between 2016–2019. The findings uncover how, through mediatization, members work towards reconstructing the holy community online, yet renegotiate enclave boundaries. The findings illuminate a democratizing impact of mediatization as growing masses of ultra-Orthodox participants are given a voice, restructure power relations and modify fundamentalist proclivities towards this-worldly activity, to influence society beyond the enclave’s online and offline boundaries.

scholarly journals Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between the Numbers of Christian Churches of the Middle East

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Oksana Shepetyak
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Eastern Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
History Of Formation

In the Article of Oksana Shepetyak "Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between the Numbers of Christian Churches of the Middle East"is analyzed the modernity of the Christians communities in their historical regions and tendency in their development. The diversity of Eastern Christianity requires a broad and multifaceted study. Most researchers focus on the history of formation, theological and liturgical aspects, and contemporaneity. This study is devoted to the comparison of only statistics, which, however, reveal an entirely new picture of the Christian East. The comparison of the number of believers in the Eastern Churches shows that the Oriental non-orthodox churches dominate in the Alexandrian tradition, while the Eastern Catholic Churches predominate in the East Syrian and Western-Syrian tradition. Instead, the Churches of the Byzantine tradition in the Middle East turned into small religious communities.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS DEMOCRATIZATION IN INDONESIA: STRENGTHENING THE PRO-CEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIAL RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY

Al-Albab ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Hendry AR.
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Michael Mann ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Relation Model ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Islamic Society

Inspired by the book of Michael Mann about the dark side of democracy that discusses the paradox between the ideality of democratic values and empirical realities of violence in the name of freedom (democracy), this paper begins with the exposure of the paradox, such as the rise of the violent conflict between groups of people (both ethnic and religious-based) and the high prevalence of violence between religious groups in Indonesia. Even worse, a very wrenching violence involves state actors (rulers). This paper tries to understand the roots of the paradox, with a look at how the relationship between state and religion and the religious community trend of Indonesia (especially Muslims). The author argues that the democratization of religion is a solution to the issues. To answer what kind of religious democracy lives in Indonesia, the author analyzes through a religious procedural (or constitutional) democratic dimension and religious substantial democratic dimension. The phenomenon of disobedience of law and system and the euphoria of law-making that reflects “intolerance” in several places in Indonesia display the fundamental issue in the religious procedural democracy. Whereas in the context of religious substantial democracy, the prevailing trend of religion that serves as a political and economic vehicle and ignores religion as a substantial aspect of the behavior of the Indonesian society has resulted in the marginalization of religious position and function. Then, the infiltration of the model of political Islam has also led to alienation of the character of the Islamic society of Indonesia, from a democratic pattern to a revival (radical) one. In this light, the author needs to present a strategy to encourage religious democracy in Indonesia, structurally through formulating the ideal relation model between state and religion and culturally through a substantial pattern of religion embedded with the character of Indonesian religious communities as well as the need to revitalize the true Indonesian Islamic model which will be intrinsically familiar with the principles of democracy. Key words: Democracy, religious procedural, substantial democracy, intole­rance, law and system of disobedience.

scholarly journals Religious Community Movement Online: Tracking History And Transformation Of Islamic Dakwah in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Wely Dozan ◽  
Hopizal Wadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Religious Social Movements ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Community Movement

This article generally examines online religious communities; more specifically, this article reviews religious communities in Indonesia with the object of study by the United Muslim community. Muslim United is one of the online religious communities in Indonesia. This community has various kinds of programs, including conducting da'wah activities through social media and a massive alms program at dawn which is carried out to assist in distributing fruits to class communities lewd. This article explains specifically about the united Muslim community that exists on social media. The method used in this article is ethnography, a method that collects data through the Muslim United Instagram account and also searches for other data from the YouTube, Twitter accounts that are specific about activities in the Muslim United community. This study indicates that the Muslim community is united in opening up hijrah spaces for young people and carrying out religious, social movements without any politics.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of the Social Distancing Movement to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
I Gusti Bagus Rai Utama ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research was conducted accidentally which included 109 respondents. Data collection was carried out by survey using an online question instrument (google form) distributed on various social media. The level of effectiveness in the form of social distancing to address the development of information related to COVID-19 is effective in reducing the rampant transmission of COVID-19 through human relations by humans by 82%. The relationship between the respondent's work and the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on the work of the respondent statistically using the Chi-Square Test were not significant. The relationship between the respondent's work and the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on work from home has been shown to have a significant effect. The relationship between respondents’ work and the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on out-of-town travel had no significant effect. Relationship between respondents' work and the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on meetings and meetings did not have a significant effect the relationship between Respondent's Work and the Impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on work activities proved to have a significant effect. The relationship between respondents’ work and the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on meetings with consumers had no significant effect.

scholarly journals The Causes and Consequences of COVID-19 Misperceptions: Understanding the Role of News and Social Media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aengus Bridgman ◽  
Eric Merkley ◽  
Peter John Loewen ◽  
Taylor Owen ◽  
Derek Ruths ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Relationship

We investigate the relationship between media consumption, misinformation, and important attitudes and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. We find that comparatively more misinformation circulates on social media platforms, while traditional news media tend to reinforce public health recommendations like social distancing. We find that exposure to social media is associated with misperceptions about COVID-19 while the inverse is true for news media. These misperceptions are in turn associated with lower compliance with social distancing measures. We thus draw a link from misinformation on social media to behaviours and attitudes that potentially magnify the scale and lethality of COVID-19.

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