“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination

Ben Kasstan

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 280, issue C

Abstract: Maintaining ‘faith’ in vaccination has emerged as a public health challenge amidst outbreaks of preventable disease among religious minorities and rising claims to ‘exemption’ from vaccine mandates. Outbreaks of measles and coronavirus have been particularly acute among Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods in North America, Europe and Israel, yet no comparative studies have been conducted to discern the shared and situated influences on vaccine decision-making.

Keywords: Coronavirus; Israel; Measles; Religion; United Kingdom; Vaccine mandates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114052

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