SOCIAL DISTANCING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SACRED: CORONAVÍRUE AND THE NEW SOCIAL PRACTICES

Abstract

The present text shows an analysis perspective with regard to the sacred in its spatial dimension at a time of social detachment due to a pandemic that is advancing on a planetary scale, affecting religious temples and other sacred places, including fostering distinct and even conflicting ideological positions among religious leaders. Thus, this text aims to analyze social distance in a perspective of the sacred. For this, we search the news from the journals related to the theme and to link it to a theoretical support that values ​​the spatial meanings of the measures taken by religious institutions and their faithful regarding  the understanding of the sacred. Considering the fear that the disease spreads and social relations increasingly fragile, we proceed in an comprehension that people are being directed to look at the sacred from a more liquid perspective, molded to the pandemic context caused by COVID-19. Therefore, our analysis suggests an appreciation of the individual towards the sacred, in which he assumes a fluid attitude regarding the sacredness of private spaces, showing other meaning for the home while a safe place against the illness and a meeting place with the transcendente.