Theodicy perspective as an effect of the interpenetration of mental and religious issues during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
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2023-12-28
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The authors of the article wanted to answer the question regarding to what extent the different types of experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, understood as codes from the medical subsystem, differentiate the level of intensity of religious attitudes of Poles. For this purpose, the validity of the hypothesis derived from Niklas Luhmann’s theory was verified. According to this theory, the interpenetration of mental and religious systems in times of a pandemic causes the emergence of meanings that reorder communication with other social systems. The obtained research results indicate that the COVID-19 experience is such a dominant variable in determining religious behaviour that demographic variables in pandemic conditions turn out to be statistically insignificant. The interpenetration of mental and social systems goes beyond these differences, since it concerns the basics of communication and confronting the existing ways of encoding events with the environment that introduces serious disturbances in the flow of information.
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The project is funded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education within the program under the name “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in 2019-2022, project number: 028/RID/2018/19, the amount of funding: 11 742 500 PLN.