ABSTRACT

The wide-reaching government restrictions in the fight against COVID-19 are compelling religious communities in Switzerland to modify their ritual practice in order to comply with the state's stipulations. With a focus on religious authority following Bourdieu, this paper researches the ritual modifications in the Roman Catholic Church and an Islamic organisation via the three categories of change, shift, and cancellation. Modifications were implemented to avoid the cancellation of public rituals which highlights their importance. As it finally became inevitable, the decision-makers within the two communities were confronted with the need to justify their compliance to state rules within the community and towards the secular outside world. This paper shows that the constitution of religious authority in response to ritual restrictions is dependent on the degree of establishment within the societal context and the division of religious labour in the community.

抽象的

政府在与COVID-19的斗争中受到广泛的限制，这迫使瑞士的宗教团体修改其礼仪习惯，以符合该州的规定。本文以布迪厄之后的宗教权威为重点，通过变化，转移和取消这三类研究罗马天主教会和一个伊斯兰组织中的宗教仪式。进行了修改以避免取消突出其重要性的公共仪式。随着这最终变得不可避免，两个社区内的决策者面临着需要证明其遵守社区内国家规则和朝着世俗外部世界的理由。本文表明，响应仪式限制而建立的宗教权威结构取决于社会背景下的建立程度和社区中宗教工作的划分。