
"The premier academic association of anthropologists put out a call for pieces for an edited collection of essays to 'provide a forum for early observations and reflections on the pandemic as it unfolds'," commented Dr. Sheklian.
"... like Armenian Orthodox Christians, for whom liturgy is not merely a gathering of individual believers but an active partaking in Holy Communion that therefore stitches together the Church as such, there are fundamental theological concerns over the inability to physically come together for robust sacramental life," exclaims Sheklian in an excerpt from the article. "Though the ecclesial conundrums continue, for Armenian Apostolic Christians, alongside all Christians with a strong liturgical tradition, Holy Week and Easter has gone on in the midst of the pandemic, albeit with ad hoc, imaginative alternative liturgical celebrations," concludes the article.
To read the entire article, go to https://culanth.org/fieldsights/communion-in-quarantine.