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Streaming religious services during a public health crisis: how digital religion shapes population well-being and intergenerational learning.
- Source :
- Mental Health, Religion & Culture; Nov2023, Vol. 26 Issue 9, p850-872, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
-
Abstract
- This study employs the therapeutic landscape theory to explore how online religious services during lockdown restrictions shape experiences of well-being and intergenerational learning. We used qualitative data from in depth interviews and focus groups with older adults and pastors in five churches in Ghana to explore how online religious places are conceptualized as therapeutic landscapes for sustaining wellbeing goals amidst a global pandemic. We identified multiple pathways of meaning through which online religious services shape the lives of people in a faith community to sustain the experience of well-being in a difficult time. In addition, this paper reflects on the broader implications of COVID-19 in shaping a paradigm shift in digital religion and intergenerational learning experiences through a changing religious landscape precipitated by lockdown restrictions that have drastically altered traditional religious places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WELL-being
COVID-19
MASS media
FOCUS groups
CLERGY
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
DIGITAL technology
PUBLIC health
INTERVIEWING
VIDEOCONFERENCING
LEARNING
QUALITATIVE research
SPIRITUAL healing
PARADIGMS (Social sciences)
INFECTION control
RELIGIOUS leaders
POPULATION health
PSYCHOLOGY & religion
STAY-at-home orders
STATISTICAL sampling
COVID-19 pandemic
RELIGION
CRISIS intervention (Mental health services)
CHURCH buildings
GOAL (Psychology)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13674676
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mental Health, Religion & Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175302398
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2268553