Working Paper

CREID Working Paper 3

Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities

Published on 16 October 2020

This CREID Working Paper explores the challenges that emerge when public health measures to mitigate the risk of infection during an epidemic infringe on the rights of religious communities to say a final farewell to their loved ones according to their custom.

It aims to answer these questions:

  • how does epidemic response in the context of death and burials frame and impact religious minority rights?
  • And in turn, how do sectarian dynamics reposition themselves in the context of epidemic response?

Other papers in the CREID Working Paper series:

Find out more about the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID).

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Ripoll, S. (2020) Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities, CREID Working Paper 3, Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies

Authors

Santiago Ripoll

Research Fellow

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published by
IDS
doi
10.19088/CREID.2020.001
isbn
978-1-78118-695-4
language
English

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