NEW ROLE OF RELIGIONS IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT
NEW ROLE OF RELIGIONS IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT

Author(s): Roberta Santoro
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Culture, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Religious formations; Democracy; Europe; Faithful.
Summary/Abstract: The global pandemic produces rules that impose suffering on religions, which must reconsider their social role now. This entails the need to examine the rules of coexistence within societies, where Coronavirus phenomenon raises existential and religious questions. We need to look at the condition of the state of religious freedom – in the European context – referring to globalization in a climate of restriction of personal, social, and religious freedom. Complexity has undermined the role of states, the delimitation of competences regarding relations with religions. For them, building community and associations relations where religious freedom is expressed is fundamental. Believers are therefore bearers of specific interests. This particular situation calls for a new function for religions, focused on the value of the person who can lead to the common identity and guarantee «those values of social and community integration that seem particularly discovered today».

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