Communion of the ROC during the coronavirus epidemic in the context of the anthropology of purity
The article describes how the ROC reacted to the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic and how it affected the communion. The measures is caused a lot of controversy between clergy. Opinions ranged from complete acceptance to denial. The arguments and actions of the clergy are considered in the article from the position of the M. Douglas's theory of the Anthropology of purity. According to this theory each culture defines for itself clean and dirty things and processes, based on the position of these things into classifications that exist in this culture. The article examines how different representatives of the church build their arguments about the possibility of certain practices. It also examines how each of them constructs their arguments and what kind of authority they use.