CoronAsur

Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
Follows the documentation and analysis of the abrupt societal shifts triggered by the Covid pandemic to understand current and future pandemic times, while revealing further avenues for research on religion that have opened up in the Covidian age.
By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were mobilized to make sense of Covid, including a repertoire of gods and demons like Coronasur, the virus depicted with the horns and fangs of a traditional Hindu demon. Various kinds of knowledge were invoked: theologies, indigenous medicines, and biomedical narratives, as well as ethical values and nationalist sentiments. CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age follows the documentation and analysis of the abrupt societal shifts triggered by the pandemic to understand current and future pandemic times, while revealing further avenues for research on religion that have opened up in the Covidian age.

Developed in tandem with the research blog CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19, this volume is a "phygital" publication, a work grounded in empirical roots as well as digitally born communication. It comprises thirty-eight essays that examine Asian religious communities—Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, and Christian as well as popular/folk and new religious movements, or NRMs—in terms of the changes brought on by and the ritual responses to the Covid pandemic.

Studying religious narratives, practices, and changes in the Covidian age adds to our understanding of not only the specific groups in which they are situated, but also the coronavirus itself, its disputed etiologies and culturally contextualized exegeses. CoronAsur offers a comprehensive and timely discussion of Covidian transformations in religious communities’ engagements with media, spaces, and moral and political economies, documenting how religious practices and discourses have co-produced the meanings of the pandemic.

Contributor: Emily Zoe Hertzman (Edited by), Natalie Lang (Edited by), Erica M. Larson (Edited by), Carola E. Lorea (Edited by), Nia Deliana (Contributions by), Beverly Anne Devakishen (Contributions by), Kanchana Dodan Godage (Contributions by), Faizah Zakaria (Contributions by), Amelia Fauzia (Contributions by), Nalika Gajaweera (Contributions by), Daniel P.S. Goh (Contributions by), Siti Zubaidah Ismail (Contributions by), Jack Meng-Tat Chia (Contributions by), Swayam Bagaria (Contributions by), Raka Banerjee (Contributions by), Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan (Contributions by), Hsun Chang (Contributions by), Ankana Das (Contributions by), Deepsikha Dasgupta (Contributions by), Dean Koon Lee Wang (Contributions by), Emily Zoe Hertzman (Contributions by), Natalie Lang (Contributions by), Erica M. Larson (Contributions by), Fatema Aarshe (Contributions by), Yasmeen Arif (Contributions by), Indira Arumugam (Contributions by), Nurul Fadiah Johari (Contributions by), Carola E. Lorea (Contributions by), Philipp Zehmisch (Contributions by), Sinah Theres Kloß (Contributions by), Lei Ting (Contributions by), Alvin Eng Hui Lim (Contributions by), Marianna Lis (Contributions by), Lynn Wong (Contributions by), Neena Mahadev (Contributions by), Malini Bhattacharjee (Contributions by), Mariano Errichiello (Contributions by), Muhammad Lutfi Bin Othman (Contributions by), Mukul Pandey (Contributions by), Lim Peng Chew (Contributions by), Dishani Roy (Contributions by), Louie Jon A. Sánchez (Contributions by), Saymon Zakaria (Contributions by), Shen Yeh-Ying (Contributions by), Yuki Shiozaki (Contributions by), Show Ying Ruo (Contributions by), Esmond Chuah Meng Soh (Contributions by), Terence Chong (Contributions by), Tran Thi Thuy Binh (Contributions by), Vo Duy Thanh (Contributions by), Catherine Margaret West (Contributions by), Zhao Yuanhao (Contributions by), Yijiang Zhong (Contributions by)

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