RELIGION AS SCIENCE, SCIENCE AS RELIGION, AND AN UNWELCOME REFORMATION: SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE DURING COVID-19 – A GREEK ORTHODOX CASE STUDY.

The present paper comments upon certain (mis)understandings concerning science and religion in Greece’s public discourse during 2020 and 2021. The first half consists of a theoretical commentary on what transpired in Greece, focusing on ‘science’ and ‘religion’ morphing into one another in the public square apropos the pandemic—with religion presenting itself as science, science presenting itself as religion, and an unwelcome ‘Reformation’ in science emerging out of dissent. The second half of the paper provides a report on Greece’s public square during the pandemic, on the basis of which the theoretical part was formed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]