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Politics meets healthcare? Religious misinformation in India during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Source :
- Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, Vol 13, Iss 02, Pp 146-150 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ITS, 2020.
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Abstract
- India has recently become a hotspot of misinformation: the COVID-19 brings a new opportunity for the rumor-spreaders. Of various categories, religious misinformation seems harmful for both Indian society and public health. In this paper, therefore, I tried to sketch a few necessary aspects of religious misinformation in India during the COVID-19. From the previous literature and ongoing trend of Indian misinformation, I identified two important phenomena: (a) Though Muslims produce more spiritual misinformation, most of the religious misinformation targeting Muslims is inspired by Islamophobia; (b) misinformation that tries to champion Hinduism is more related to the contemporary political ideologies of India. I also tried to explain how religion as a political issue relates to public health
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Hinduism
Islamophobia
social media
media_common.quotation_subject
Public health
covid-19 pandemic
india
Champion
healthcare
lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Politics
Political science
lcsh:AZ20-999
medicine
lcsh:H1-99
Social media
Ideology
Misinformation
politics
lcsh:Social sciences (General)
Social science
misinformation
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 24433527 and 19795521
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Jurnal Sosial Humaniora
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....399850d5470cd3a6da9bb51dfd4b0b40