Restrictions on Funeral Gatherings during COVID-19: A Religious/Spiritual Perspective among the Zimbabwean Community Living in South Africa

This essay endeavors to understand the impact of COVID-19 hard lockdown restrictions on funeral gatherings from a Zimbabwean religious/spiritual per-spective. For most Zimbabwean Christians and non-Christians, funeral rites of passage are at the apex of all religious activities and are revered in mo...

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Main Author: Musoni, Phillip (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: ASRSA 2023
In: Journal for the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-17
Further subjects:B Zimbabwean immigrants
B funeral rites
B prolonged grief
B Covid-19
B religio-spiritual world-view
B hard lockdown
B Pandemic
B spiritual distress
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