Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
DINBILIMLERI AKADEMIK ARASTIRMA DERGISI-JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN RELIGIOUS SCIENCES, sa.1, ss.281-312, 2022 (ESCI)
This study aims to determine the relationship between the COVID-19 and religious belief. In this context, a questionnaire was applied to 344 students with the "COVID19-belief relationship scale" in order to determine how the students of Hitit University, Corum evaluate the COVID-19 virus and the resulting medical, psychological, social, etc. situations in terms of belief. In our study, the data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed with the quantitative analysis method using SPSS. Considering the answers given by the participants, it has been determined that the way the epidemic was explained showed heterogeneity within the framework of the causality principle and in line with their social, cultural, and economic conditions. It has been expressed those impacts of situations such as epidemics, and natural disasters are inevitable in the human-religion relationship. Explanations in the religious context support the causality principle. Religious discourse suggests that disasters such as epidemics can be evaluated in the context of warning, punishment, and wisdom instead of living a life focused on human health and the world. In the light of the information obtained, it has been observed that even if the respondents had the idea that humans were producing the virus in a laboratory environment, they had an unchanging and written understanding of destiny, thus even if the virus was artificial, it was a test from God. It was seen that the culture in which the participants grew up and the religious belief they acquired from their environment played an essential role in their evaluation of the epidemic-type situations, and at the same time, the religious life of the individual, the level of education and the environment they lived affected the perspective of the events.