Editorial: Religião, ciência e arte em tempos pandêmicos

Abstract

Dossiê: Religião, ciência e arte em tempos pandêmicos. Editorial, v. 5, n. 2, 2020.

Pandemic Religion in Brazil—Temptation and Responsibility

“…Barros 2019) approaches to faith, in the coronavirus pandemic, led not only to unhealthy but also insane reactions to the virus. As several studies have shown, the problem is wider than sanitary, it is religious, political and ethical (Barsalini et al 2020;Carneiro et al 2020;Pilla and von Sinner 2020;Villas Boas 2020). This is why only an interdisciplinary approach may help find ways to think about the problem in its integrality to try to construct responsible responses to it.…”

“…On the other hand, it recognises that there is an economic element at the bottom of the issue, in which an ethics of consumerism leads to an unhealthy relationship with nature (Barsalini et al 2020). The latter emphasises the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, making explicit some political and religious reactions to the virus, research within universities during the pandemic, as well as some philosophical intersections with this sanitary crisis (Carneiro et al 2020). In a broader sense, but still considering theological responses to the pandemic, the collective book O ser humano em tempos de COVID-19 ("The human being in times of COVID-19") reflects on aspects such as God, fear, hope, frailty, suffering, family and education based on approaches from the humanities (Pilla and von Sinner 2020).…”