CIDRAL Public Lecture – Zoom Event

(a joint event with the Centre for Jewish Studies)

5.00pm Tuesday 8 December

Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky), ‘”It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’

One familiar feature of operating while the current pandemic is taking place is that new ways of doing things have to be devised. Religion is no exception, and the novel strategies to get around the novel virus are often met with the response “It’s just not the same”. In some ways this is a perplexing reaction since religions that have survived for a long time and in often very different environments are well used to coping with change and its attendant problems. This talk will examine a range of ways in which rituals have been altered and will reflect on what that suggests about the nature of ritual in religion.

• Zoom details available from david.alderson@manchester.ac.uk

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CIDRAL Public Lecture

(a joint event with the Centre for Jewish Studies)

5.00pm Tuesday 8 December

Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky), ‘”It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’

One familiar feature of operating while the current pandemic is taking place is that new ways of doing things have to be devised. Religion is no exception, and the novel strategies to get around the novel virus are often met with the response “It’s just not the same”. In some ways this is a perplexing reaction since religions that have survived for a long time and in often very different environments are well used to coping with change and its attendant problems. This talk will examine a range of ways in which rituals have been altered and will reflect on what that suggests about the nature of ritual in religion.

• Zoom details available from david.alderson@manchester.ac.uk

From: David Alderson <david.alderson@manchester.ac.uk

From: David Alderson <david.alderson@manchester.ac.uk

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