Social and Religious Impact of Covid-19 in a Quarantined Zones of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Case Study of Ziarat Talash Lower Dir)

Authors

  • Dr. Azizullah Jan S.C.T Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  • Dr. Ihsan Ullah Khan Assistant Professor Sociology, FATA University, Pakistan
  • Momna Rani M.Phil. Scholar, Department of sociology, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33195/journal.v4i02.334

Keywords:

Covid-19, Quarantined Zones, Mosques, social interaction, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, social Distance

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus named COVID-19 has disrupted the Chinese economy along with social life of human being throughout the world and spreading globally. The evolution of the disease and its impact on social life is highly uncertain, which makes it difficult for policymakers to formulate an appropriate sociological policy response. In order to better understand possible socio-religious outcomes, this paper explores that how covid-19 creates religious disintegration and sociological diseases in society. It examines the impacts of both scenarios of social and religious on the daily life of human being in a society. The scenarios in this paper demonstrate that even a contained outbreak could significantly impact the religious and social aspects of society. The study was carried out with the paradigm of qualitative based inquiry. This preliminary study investigates that how the pandemic of Covid-19 effect the social and religious life and what kinds of strategies should be required for people to compete with dilemma. 

Published

2021-03-22