Remembering (and Forgetting) COVID-19 in Britain's Religious-Secular Landscape
As in many nations around the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact in the United Kingdom, and numerous efforts have been made to begin memorializing the lives lost to the virus. This article focuses on how such initiatives relate to the interplay of religiosity and secularity in co...
| Published in: | Cross currents |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of North Carolina Press
2022
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Cross currents
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| Summary: | As in many nations around the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact in the United Kingdom, and numerous efforts have been made to begin memorializing the lives lost to the virus. This article focuses on how such initiatives relate to the interplay of religiosity and secularity in contemporary Britain, arguing that the marked decline in affiliation with Christianity has impacted memorialization of the pandemic in important ways. Looking at four remembrance initiatives perceived to hold national significance, I argue that religious-secular plurality has fed into a varied and creative memory culture but that an absence of clear common ground in the processes of remembering may also contribute to powerful forces of societal forgetting. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cro.2022.0030 |