Intimacy with God and Coronavirus in Pakistan

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Malik, NDate
2020-12-01Source Title
Anthropology in ActionPublisher
Berghahn BooksUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Malik, MuhammadAffiliation
School of Social and Political SciencesMetadata
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Malik, N. (2020). Intimacy with God and Coronavirus in Pakistan. Anthropology in Action, 27 (3), pp.78-81. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270316.Access Status
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Intimacy with God is at the heart of Islamic practice through prayer. Intimacy with fellow congregants became central to the worship practices promoted by religious leaders during the holy month of Ramadan even when social distancing was required because of the pandemic. This was, by and large, an economic matter. Clerics and mosques rely significantly on the income generated through collective worship, especially during Ramadan. This article provides an account of people’s sense of intimacy with God and fellow congregants during Ramadan and how it contributed to the spread of the coronavirus in Pakistan.
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