Muslim Religiosity in Times of Covid-19 in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire: A Dialogue between Health Norms and Religious Practices
Binaté, Issouf
Muslim Religiosity in Times of Covid-19 in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire: A Dialogue between Health Norms and Religious Practices - 2022.
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The Covid-19 pandemic led to the adoption of exceptional measures that significantly transformed religious practices at the end of the first quarter of 2020. These transformations included the closing of places of worship, and later the adoption of strict sanitary measures (physical distancing and the limitation of people allowed in public spaces, ban on physical contact) led to the adoption of creative religious practices by Muslim religious leaders in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. However, these practices were diversely appreciated by Muslims: while organizations catering to Muslim civil servants and political and administrative elites strictly adhered to the rules, Muslim traders and youth from popular classes strongly contested the measures.
Muslim Religiosity in Times of Covid-19 in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire: A Dialogue between Health Norms and Religious Practices - 2022.
83
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the adoption of exceptional measures that significantly transformed religious practices at the end of the first quarter of 2020. These transformations included the closing of places of worship, and later the adoption of strict sanitary measures (physical distancing and the limitation of people allowed in public spaces, ban on physical contact) led to the adoption of creative religious practices by Muslim religious leaders in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. However, these practices were diversely appreciated by Muslims: while organizations catering to Muslim civil servants and political and administrative elites strictly adhered to the rules, Muslim traders and youth from popular classes strongly contested the measures.
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