Transformation of Social and Religious Life in the Covid-19 Epidemic Process: A Psychosocial Analysis

Abstract

This study focuses on the changes witnessed in social life throughout the Covid-19 epidemic period, particularly how the pandemic affected religious institutions. The study, which employs psychosocial analysis, investigates the alteration of social and religious life in the presence of diverse social psychology theories. During and after the epidemic, religion strives to adapt to fluid change and tries to produce a new form of belief and religiosity that will soothe anxious people, in contrast to its traditional form, in a process of radical change and social erosion in which discourses such as 'nothing will be the same as before' are frequently voiced. The fact that religion and religiosity are pregnant with new manifestations throughout the epidemic process might be regarded as an adaptation reaction or a crucial reaction to the synthetic alteration that has already begun to be felt. Religion aims to achieve a shape that takes care of the changing requirements of the person and directs his life by keeping its unchanging principles. He even took the risk of mixing secular, metaphysical, astrological, and paranormal components within himself to achieve this goal. Finally, contrary to standard secularization theorists' forecasts that religion will vanish, religion will evolve after the pandemic and continue to exist in a society that will become even more digital, a form of post-corona religiosity. By stressing the transition dynamics experienced during the epidemic era, it is intended that the research would create new topics of discussion and contribute to the field of sociology.