While scholars have highlighted how science communication reifies forms of structural inequality, especially race and gender, we examine the challenges science communication pose for religious minorities. Drawing on the disproportionate magnitude of COVID-19-related morbidity on Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews, we examined their processes of COVID-19 health decision making. Survey results show that both religious and health-related justifications were common for personal decisions, yet a disparity was found between the ways social distancing guidelines were perceived in the general education context compared with the religious context, signaling the importance for inclusive models of science communication that account for religious sensibilities and state-minority relations.

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宗教少数群体中的公众参与科学：来自 COVID-19 的教训

虽然学者们强调了科学传播如何具体化结构性不平等的形式，尤其是种族和性别，但我们研究了科学传播对宗教少数群体构成的挑战。利用以色列极端正统派犹太人与 COVID-19 相关的发病率不成比例的情况，我们检查了他们的 COVID-19 健康决策过程。调查结果表明，宗教和健康相关的理由在个人决定中很常见，但与宗教背景相比，通识教育背景下对社会疏远准则的理解方式存在差异，这表明包容性科学传播模式的重要性这说明了宗教敏感性和国家与少数群体的关系。