THE SPIRITUAL BELIEF TO PROTECT FROM COVID-19: THE CASE STUDY OF INDIA

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has presented unprecedented health
challenges, resulting in complete restrictions on lives across the world. This research assesses
spiritual care as an essential component of comprehensive health management, particularly in
terms of adaptation, acceptance of illness, suffering, and, ultimately, of death. This article
provides information on the need to provide spiritual care as a means of coping and wellbeing
for families, patients, and health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research
examined how the Indian people understood the Indian Prime Minister’s announcement to
adopt a ritual belief in this pandemic. The research questions examine how the pandemic has
disrupted religious observances and how people changed their performance of ritual work in
fear of the coronavirus. The authors found that, while people were spiritually motivated by
the Prime Minister's appeal, the mass vaccination program was the solution to the pandemic,
and was the primary factor decreasing new cases.

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