Public Engagement With Science Among Religious Minorities: Lessons From COVID-19

Lea Taragin-Zeller; Yael Rozenblum; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

doi:10.1177/1075547020962107

Public Engagement With Science Among Religious Minorities: Lessons From COVID-19

Lea Taragin-Zeller^*, Yael Rozenblum, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	643-678
Number of pages	36
Journal	Science Communication
Volume	42
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547020962107
State	Published - 1 Oct 2020
Externally published	Yes

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COVID-19
health decision making
public engagement with science
religious minorities
science and religion

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