COVID-19: Harbinger of a New Psychology of Religion for Postcolonial Societies #MMPMIDC7683035
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Religious practice, like every other human affair, was altered at the onset of the pandemic. The paper argues that the ?home church? as a Christian expression of religiosity during Covid-19, for instance, was a signal to something new at least in the theoretical realms of religion. More strongly, it was a vindication of postcolonial native societies (of Africa) whose indigenous spiritualities were thwarted and/or abolished during the colonial era. The pandemic is theorized as a wake-up call for agency in these societies. The theorization relies upon Piaget?s psychological ?techniques? of accommodation and assimilation, opening various channels to answering the questions: what was assimilated during colonialism that should have been accommodated and vice versa? And how has the pandemic uncovered that error of inversion?