A Project for HIST 1000 in 2020-2022
 
Author: <span>Daniel Gitelman</span>

How Pandemics Affect Religiosity

Pandemics and religion go hand in hand. Often, this association expands to crises in general, with historical anecdotes showing that people often viewed such events as the wrath of God, or the gods in polytheistic societies. For example, in the Iliad, one of the most famous books from Ancient Greece, …