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- Title
Viral Devotionality and Christian Solidarity in/beyond Borneo.
- Authors
Chua, Liana
- Abstract
As COVID-19 began to spread across Malaysia in early-2020, Jesus began to materialize with increasing frequency on my Facebook feed. COVID-19 related messages are part of a diverse assemblage of Christian posts that have been circulating on the Facebook networks of my fieldwork acquaintances: indigenous Bidayuhs in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, with whom I've worked since 2003. Today, with both churches and individual congregants active on Facebook, social media interactions form a "legitimized frame" (Bielo 2018:371) of Christian interaction and experience for Bidayuhs - no less valid or meaningful than their fleshly equivalents. Put differently, Facebook interactions haven't simply lent spiritual meaning to the pandemic, nor merely given Bidayuhs a practical means of sustaining Christian practice, sociality, and relations.
- Subjects
BORNEO; CHRISTIANS; COVID-19 pandemic; CHRISTIAN life; SARS-CoV-2; CHRISTIANITY &; culture
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, p6
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5258