Premium
What is being revealed in 2020?
Author(s) -
Bloomquist Karen L.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12585
Subject(s) - racism , pandemic , covid-19 , sociology , gender studies , medicine , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The Covid‐19 pandemic is exposing how humans have long related to nature, and revealing aspects of classism and racism that have long been ignored. Drawing on spiritual resources, such as Luther, might the polarizing, self versus other tendencies be overcome and the long pandemic rooted in economic class and racism more effectively addressed today? Can this result in a “new normal”?