期刊
RELIGIONS
卷 12, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel12100790
关键词
religious worldview; COVID-19; international; Amish; Mennonite; pandemic
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资金
- National Science Foundation [2048683]
- International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society [SFSRG01/114]
- West Virginia Humanities Council
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [2048683] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study explores how governments across the globe restricted social life to slow the spread of COVID-19, and how conservative Protestant sects in the United States resisted these policies. It is argued that the country context likely shapes how conservative Protestants' moral worldview affects their perceptions of the pandemic and government restrictions, and how the environment may influence the expression of religious moral worldviews in public health interventions.
Across the globe, governments restricted social life to slow the spread of COVID-19. Several conservative Protestant sects resisted these policies in the United States. We do not yet know if theology shaped the resistance or if it was more a product of a polarized national political context. We argue that the country context likely shapes how conservative Protestants' moral worldview affects their perceptions of the pandemic and government restrictions. Countries implementing more regulations, those with limited access to healthcare, food, and other essential services, and those with past histories of epidemics may all shape residents' perceptions. Drawing on the case of American Amish and Mennonite missionaries stationed abroad, we content-analyzed accounts of the pandemic from an international Amish and Mennonite correspondence newspaper. We found that the missionaries' perceptions of the pandemic and governmental restrictions differ from those of their U.S. counterparts, which suggests that context likely shapes how religious moral worldviews express themselves concerning public health interventions.
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