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RISK AND SACRAMENT: BEING HUMAN IN A COVID‐19 WORLD
Author(s) -
Norman Ziba,
Reiss Michael J.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12618
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , context (archaeology) , identity (music) , sociology , psychology , environmental ethics , social psychology , epistemology , political science , history , virology , medicine , aesthetics , philosophy , archaeology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In this article we examine the changing relationship to risk as revealed by the covid‐19 pandemic and the ways this has, and may in future, alter sacramental practice, considering the radical effects this could have on traditional Christian practice. We consider the cultural trends that may lie behind this developing approach to risk, examining this in the context of an emergent transhuman identity that is technologically moderated and seeks to overcome risks of human mortality.