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Covid ‘accelerated trend towards secularisation’ says report
The Religion Media Center just published an article about our findings, cf. https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/news/covid-accelerated-trend-towards-secularisation-says-report/
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RMC briefing
Tuesday 17 June 1200The impact of Covid on religion across five societies Today we presented our preliminary findings at the Religion Media Centre: Research across Canada, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Poland, has examined the changing role of religion in society through Covid. It has found that religious organisations were more able to accept moral arguments for…
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Presenting the Project’s Results at the T-AP End of Project Conference Recovery
The project presented the preliminary results of the project at the T-AP End of Project-Conference. The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for the Social Sciences and Humanities, serves as a collaboration between humanities and social science research funders from the Americas and Europe. The conference brought together the 19 successful projects to explore the key findings/outcomes of…
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New Publication: Ireland is post-Catholic, but religion still matters
In March this year the Ireland team published a new article with the title Ireland is post-Catholic, but religion still matters. You can access the article here. While the Irish religious landscape is “post-Catholic,” religion still matters on both sides of the border. Declining religious influence is explained through the lens of the church abuse crisis, while…
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RECOV-19 Hosts Doctoral and Early Career Researchers Seminar
The RECOV-19 team hosted a seminar for doctoral and early career researchers working on issues related to religion and Covid-19 at the University of Montreal on 14 August 2024. Three researchers were selected for the seminar via a competitive process. Their findings and insights enriched knowledge in this area; while they also benefitted from feedback…
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Between faith and the pandemic
How corona has changed religious communities [You can read the article in German below the English version or click here to get to the original.] Easter 2020: instead of tens of thousands of believers, the Pope celebrated Easter Mass alone with just a few other clerics. Elsewhere, digital offerings flourished, such as an Easter service organised by…
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A Stimulating Meeting at the University of Montreal
The Recov-19 team staged a symposium on religion and Covid-19 at the University of Montreal, August 13, 2024. Organized by Solange Lefebvre (coinvestigator), Mathieu Colin and Karel Leyva (Research professionals), from the Research Chair Cultural and Religious Diversity, the event provided a platform for the international team to share their findings with a diverse audience…
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An International Showcase for the Recov-19 Team
On August 10th and 11th, 2004, the Association for the Sociology of Religion gathered in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), for its annual meeting. Nearly 20 religion scholars from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas shared the results of their ongoing research, including various members of the Recov-19 international research team, who were at the forefront of…
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COVID-19: Religious topics receive little media coverage
[You can read the article in French below the English version or click here to get to the original.] ‘During the three years I covered COVID, I didn’t think much about religion’, admitted André Picard of the Globe and Mail. It was with this remark that the journalist and columnist began his address to the…
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Seminar “Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on pastoral care” in Poland
On June 12th prof. Mandes and Dr. Kolodziejska co-organized a hybrid seminar with the Polish Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, which is a member of the Advisory Board in our project. The seminar was titled “Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on pastoral care”. Several participants, including academics, Roman Catholic priests and laypeople joined online. The presentation was followed by…
