{"id":241,"date":"2022-09-26T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:30:41","slug":"about-recov-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/about-recov-19\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-color has-text-color\">About the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of religion has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking on renewed significance in many societies, including those experiencing secularization. RECOV-19 compares the changing role of religions in four, secularizing, global north contexts: Canada, Germany, the Republic of Ireland\/Northern Ireland, and Poland. Since October 2023, there is a fifth context taken into the comparison: The role of religion during the pandemic in Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these contexts, it analyses majority (Christian) and minority (Islam and others) religions\u2019 role in three key areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>Constructing discourses around health, illness, and science, including promoting the observance (or not) of lockdown restrictions and public health measures like vaccines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lobbying and liaising with governments and policymakers, including how religious groups have contributed to debates emerging from the pandemic, like addressing inequalities and mental health issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incorporating digital innovations like blended online\/in-person approaches to religious practices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-year project utilizes a mixed-methods approach, including analysis of documents produced by religious groups, analysis of media sources, surveys, and interviews in the case of Canada, Germany, Ireland\/Northern Ireland and Poland. The case study of Russia and Belarus focuses on documents of religious organisations and media sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It features a multi-disciplinary team with researchers from Queen\u2019s University Belfast, University of Montreal, University of Bremen, and University of Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about the project by watching the video of our launch in at Queen\u2019s University Belfast on 30 August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Launch-No-Qs-Hd-1080P.m4v\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Project The role of religion has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking on renewed significance in many societies, including those experiencing secularization. RECOV-19 compares the changing role of religions in four, secularizing, global north contexts: Canada, Germany, the Republic of Ireland\/Northern Ireland, and Poland. Since October 2023, there is a fifth context taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recov19.uni-bremen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}