Bryson, J;
Andres, L;
Davies, A;
(2020)
Covid-19, Virtual Church Services and a new Temporary Geography of Home.
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
, 111
(3)
pp. 360-372.
10.1111/tesg.12436.
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Abstract
The COVID‐19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures implemented by the United Kingdom government from 23 March 2020 led to unprecedented adaptations from individuals and communities including places of worship, their clergy and congregations. This paper through a multi‐disciplinary dialogue between human geography and theology explores the interrelations between place, space and the spiritual. It identifies the bricolage mechanisms that were developed rapidly by churches to shift towards providing virtual church services. This was an uncommon practice by Christian denominations in the UK. COVID‐19 changed the rules requiring new practices to emerge resulting in a new form of infrasecular space to emerge. Such rapid transformations through the provision of online services and virtual embeddedness blurred the lines between sacred and secular spaces. During virtual services, the minister’s home is temporally linked to the homes of congregants forming an intersacred space. Homes and spaces within homes are transformed into temporary sacred spaces.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Covid-19, Virtual Church Services and a new Temporary Geography of Home |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tesg.12436 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12436 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097133 |
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