RT Article
T1 Online Communion, Christian Community, and Receptive Ecumenism: A Holy Week Ethnography during COVID-19
JF Studia liturgica
VO 50
IS 2
SP 188
OP 210
A1 Johnson, Sarah Kathleen
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1733594434
AB A significant liturgical controversy of the COVID-19 pandemic is whether Christians should celebrate communion online. Much of the discussion of online communion has been based on theological and theoretical claims, rather than concrete observations and experiences, and much of this reflection has been directed toward specific denominational contexts. In contrast, this ethnographic study centers on participant observation of twelve worship services that included communion, or would ordinarily have included communion, that occurred between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday of April 2020 in Free Church, mainline Protestant, Anglican, and Roman Catholic settings. It takes the approach of receptive ecumenism and asks what gifts Christians from various traditions can receive from one another in relation to online communion both during and beyond times of crisis. Rather than making a case for or against celebrating communion online, it explores the ways in which community is demonstrated and effected in online communion practices.
K1 Covid-19
K1 Easter
K1 Holy Week
K1 Online communion
K1 Community
K1 Ecumenism
K1 Ethnography
K1 Eucharist
K1 Pandemic
K1 Receptive Ecumenism
DO 10.1177/0039320720946030