"Building Spiritual Immunity": The Strategic Use of the Health Message in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The article investigates to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’ health message. Based on the results of the study of media content and interviews with Adventist media producers in Poland and the UK conducted in the spring of 2020, this article argues th...

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Main Author: Kołodziejska, Marta 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2022
In: Nordic journal of religion and society
Year: 2022, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-44
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten / Communication in medicine / Mass media / Social media / COVID-19 (Disease) / Pandemic / History 2019-2020
B Poles / Great Britain / Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten / Communication in medicine / History 2019-2020
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
KBF British Isles
KBK Europe (East)
KDG Free church
NCH Medical ethics
TK Recent history
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B COVID-19 pandemic
B Seventh-day Adventist Church
B Digital Media
B health message
B deep mediatization
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Summary:The article investigates to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’ health message. Based on the results of the study of media content and interviews with Adventist media producers in Poland and the UK conducted in the spring of 2020, this article argues that the pandemic has led to an intensification of health-related productions within the SDA Church in Poland and the UK, and a growing media awareness (in terms of when, how, and what to publish). As a result, a transformation of the communicative figuration can be observed, pertaining primarily to the communicative practices of actors and to the actors’ constellation.
ISSN:1890-7008
Contains:Enthalten in: Nordic journal of religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18261/njrs.35.1.3