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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2408-9338</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Научный результат. Социология и управление</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2408-9338</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18413/2408-9338-2021-7-3-1-3</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2534</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>СОЦИОЛОГИЯ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>&lt;strong&gt;Позиция религиозных общин во время пандемии коронавируса и отражение на общественном мнении в Македонии&lt;/strong&gt;</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he position of religious communities during the coronavirus pandemic and the reflection on the public opinion in Macedonia&lt;/strong&gt;</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Блажевский</surname><given-names>Иван</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Blazhevski</surname><given-names>Ivan</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>ivan.blazevski@isppi.ukim.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Цацановска</surname><given-names>Ружица</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Cacanoska</surname><given-names>Ruzhica</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>ruzica-c@hotmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Джорджевски</surname><given-names>Джоко</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Gjorgjeski</surname><given-names>Gjoko</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>gjgjoko@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Институт социологических, политических и правовых исследований, Университет Святых Кирилла и Мефодия, 1000, Республика Македония, Скопье, ул. Партизанских отрядов, ББ</institution></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/sociology/2021/3/152-163_KOmnr7C.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Пандемия COVID-19 по-разному повлияла на религию и веру. Взаимодействие между религиозными традициями, религиозной свободой и ответственностью в сфере общественного здравоохранения является сложным, переплетая культурные и правовые аспекты социальной реальности. Введение многочисленных ограничительных мер по профилактике и защите от распространения коронавируса во многих случаях противоречило религиозной практике религиозных общин. Взгляды религиозных общин на эти меры в начале пандемии нашли отражение и во взглядах верующих, поведение которых имело своеобразный отклик в общественном мнении. Цель данной статьи &amp;ndash; обрисовать и сравнить положение религиозных общин в македонском обществе в начале пандемии и их взгляды в конце 2020 и начале 2021 года. В ней также представлен обзор и сравнение реакций общества, которые возникли в связи с позицией религиозных общин в отношении ограничительных мер и проведения религиозных служб. Для достижения поставленных целей данная работа разделена на две части, где в первой части представлены мероприятия и инициативы религиозных общин, а во второй &amp;ndash; отражение деятельности религиозных общин на общественном мнении. При этом оба взгляда основаны на качественном анализе, в первой части которого анализируются сообщения религиозных общин, а также другие публичные источники, а во второй &amp;ndash; тематический анализ соц. сети Twitter. Сравнение позиции религиозных общин в начале пандемии и во время праздников в конце года показывает, что их позиция неизменна, и они однозначно поддерживают меры по профилактике и защите от коронавируса. Однако интерес населения к религиозным практикам резко снизился в конце года по сравнению с началом пандемии, хотя нетерпимость к священнослужителям и верующим, посещающим религиозные службы, одинакова в оба сравниваемых периода.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The COVID-19 pandemic affected religion and faith in different ways. The interaction between religious traditions, religious freedom and responsibilities in public health is complex, intertwining the cultural and legal dimensions of social reality. Introduction of numerous restrictive measures for prevention and protection against the spread of coronavirus, in many cases, were contrary to the religious practices of religious communities. The views of the religious communities regarding these measures at the beginning of the pandemic were also reflected in the views of the believers, whose behavior had a kind of response in public opinion. The purpose of this paper is to outline and compare the position of religious communities in Macedonian society at the beginning of the pandemic and their views in late 2020 and early 2021. It also provides an overview and comparison of the public reactions which arose from the position of religious communities regarding restrictive measures and the practice of religious services. To meet the objectives, this paper is divided into two parts, where the first part presents the activities and initiatives of religious communities, while the second part shows the reflections from the activities of religious communities on public opinion. In doing so, both views are based on a qualitative analysis, which in the first part analyzes the reports from religious communities, as well as other public sources, while the second part is a thematic analysis of Twitter Platform. The comparison between the position of the religious communities at the beginning of the pandemic and during the holidays at the end of the year indicates that their position is unchanged, and they clearly support the measures for prevention and protection from the coronavirus. However, the public interest in religious practices has drastically decreased at the end of the year compared to the beginning of the pandemic, although the impatience towards the clergy and believers who attend religious services is identical in both compared periods.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>религиозные общины</kwd><kwd>COVID 19</kwd><kwd>ограничительные меры</kwd><kwd>общественное мнение</kwd><kwd>Twitter</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>religious communities</kwd><kwd>COVID 19</kwd><kwd>restrictive measures</kwd><kwd>public opinion</kwd><kwd>Twitter</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>Boyatzis, R.&amp;nbsp;E. (1998), Transforming qualitative information: Thematic analysis and code Development, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><mixed-citation>Braun, V. &amp;amp; Clarke, V. 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