Public Engagement With Science Among Religious Minorities: Lessons From COVID-19 | Zendy

Lea TaraginZeller | Zendy; Yael Rozenblum | Zendy; Ayelet BaramTsabari | Zendy

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Public Engagement With Science Among Religious Minorities: Lessons From COVID-19

Author(s) -

Lea TaraginZeller,

Yael Rozenblum,

Ayelet BaramTsabari

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

science communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.38

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1552-8545

pISSN - 1075-5470

DOI - 10.1177/1075547020962107

Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , covid-19 , distancing , social distance , sociology , race (biology) , science communication , social psychology , globe , health communication , inequality , public relations , social science , psychology , political science , gender studies , science education , medicine , history , pedagogy , virology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , pathology , outbreak , disease , neuroscience , infectious disease (medical specialty)

While scholars have highlighted how science communication reifies forms of structural inequality, especially race and gender, we examine the challenges science communication pose for religious minorities. Drawing on the disproportionate magnitude of COVID-19-related morbidity on Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews, we examined their processes of COVID-19 health decision making. Survey results show that both religious and health-related justifications were common for personal decisions, yet a disparity was found between the ways social distancing guidelines were perceived in the general education context compared with the religious context, signaling the importance for inclusive models of science communication that account for religious sensibilities and state-minority relations.

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