The wide-reaching government restrictions in the fight against COVID-19 are compelling religious communities in Switzerland to modify their ritual practice in order to comply with the state's stipulations. With a focus on religious authority following Bourdieu, this paper researches the ritual modifications in the Roman Catholic Church and an Islamic organisation via the three categories of change, shift, and cancellation. Modifications were implemented to avoid the cancellation of public rituals which highlights their importance. As it finally became inevitable, the decision-makers within the two communities were confronted with the need to justify their compliance to state rules within the community and towards the secular outside world. This paper shows that the constitution of religious authority in response to ritual restrictions is dependent on the degree of establishment within the societal context and the division of religious labour in the community.
nach einem bewegten Jahr 2022 freuen wir uns sehr, Ihnen die aktuelle Jahresausgabe der Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft vorzustellen, wichtige Entwicklungen und Events des Jahres zu rekapitulieren und unsere neuen Teammitglieder vorzustellen.
Wenig bis kaum berücksichtigt werden hingegen Interpretationen, die über die unmittelbare rituelle Praxis hinausgehen und sich mit divergierenden Deutungsmustern der archäologischen Stätten auseinandersetzen. Sogenannte pseudoarchäologische 1 oder alternativ-archäologische Interpretationen, die sich mit möglichen Verwendungen und Entstehungsgeschichten dieser Stätten befassen, finden in der Religionswissenschaft insgesamt nur wenig Beachtung. Populäre Exponenten wie Graham Hancock (vgl. Spencer 2003) und Erich von Däniken (vgl. Richter 2012) werden
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