Article ID: CBB296469942

’17, ’18, ’19: religion and science in three pandemics, 1817, 1918, and 2019 (2020)

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Recognizing that serious pandemics call forth explanations which go to the heart of beliefs about why natural disasters occur, this article examines three pandemics over the last 200 years (cholera from 1817, Spanish influenza in 1918–19, and COVID-19) to establish whether such explanations have changed significantly over time and, if so, why. What it finds is that this period saw a watershed in which the dominance of traditional religious explanations declined in many parts of the world in the face of the ascent of explanations based on biomedical science. Tracking this momentous change across several faiths and regions globally makes it possible to put into telling historical perspective the stances taken by faith-based communities in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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Authors & Contributors
Fernando Rosa
Goffman, Laura F.
M. Kemal Temel
Juan Del Llano
Arnold, David J.
Tucker, Judith E.
Concepts
Pandemics
Public health
Medicine and society
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
Early modern
Places
China
Persian Gulf
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Óman
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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