Immediate Urgency and Broad Agreement: Early Public COVID-19 Responses of Religiously Affiliated Non-Governmental Organizations

ABSTRACT

The chapter analyzes official, religiously affiliated constructions of the pandemic at the beginning of the first COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe and North America. More concretely, it looks at the immediate, official, publicized constructions of the pandemic by members of the so-called ‘Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations (CRNGO)' in April 2020. By doing so, the article highlights that the respective constructions of the pandemic by representatives of the CRNGO have been dominated by a sense of broad agreement as well as immediate urgency. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.