Open AccessDeepening Greece’s Divisions: Religion, COVID, Politics, and Science
Author(s) -
Sotiris Mitralexis
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.55405/mwp11en
Subject(s) - politics , solidarity , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , political science , perspective (graphical) , political economy , sociology , pandemic , public administration , social science , law , philosophy , art , medicine , linguistics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , visual arts
Instead of being a time of unity and solidarity, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a time of disunity, a time for deepening Greece’s divisions after a decade of crisis — on a spectrum ranging from politics to religion, and more im-portantly on the public discourse on religion. The present article offers a perspective on recent developments — by (a) looking into how the Greek government weapon-ized science in the public square, by (b) examining the stance of the Orthodox Church of Greece, by (c) indicatively surveying ‘COVID-19 and religion’ develop-ments that would not be covered by the latter, and last but not least by (d) discuss-ing the discrepancy between these two areas of inquiry in an attempt to explain it.