TY - BOOK ID - 119354251 TI - CoronAsur : Asian Religions in the Covidian Age AU - Lang, Natalie; Sánchez, Louie Jon A.; Othman, Muhammad Lutfi Bin; Lorea, Carola E.; Chew, Lim Peng; Shiozaki, Yuki; Deliana, N AU - Aarshe, Fatema, AU - Arif, Yasmeen, AU - Arumugam, Indira, AU - Bagaria, Swayam, AU - Banerjee, Raka, AU - Bhattacharjee, Malini, AU - Bhuiyan, Md. Khaled Bin Oli, AU - Binh, Tran Thi Thuy, AU - Chang, Hsun, AU - Chew, Lim Peng, AU - Chia, Jack Meng-Tat, AU - Chong, Terence, AU - Das, Ankana, AU - Dasgupta, Deepsikha, AU - Deliana, Nia, AU - Devakishen, Beverly Anne, AU - Errichiello, Mariano, AU - Fauzia, Amelia, AU - Gajaweera, Nalika, AU - Godage, Kanchana Dodan, AU - Goh, Daniel P.S., AU - Hertzman, Emily Zoe, AU - Ismail, Siti Zubaidah, AU - Johari, Nurul Fadiah, AU - Kloß, Sinah Theres, AU - Lang, Natalie, AU - Larson, Erica M., AU - Lim, Alvin Eng Hui, AU - Lis, Marianna, AU - Lorea, Carola E., AU - Lorea, Carola E.,. AU - Mahadev, Neena, AU - Othman, Muhammad Lutfi Bin, AU - Pandey, Mukul, AU - Roy, Dishani, AU - Ruo, Show Ying, AU - Shiozaki, Yuki, AU - Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng, AU - Sánchez, Louie Jon A., AU - Thanh, Duy Thanh, AU - Ting, Lei, AU - Wang, Dean Koon Lee, AU - West, Catherine Margaret, AU - Wong, Lynn, AU - Yeh-Ying, Shen, AU - Zakaria, Faizah, AU - Zakaria, Saymon, AU - Zhao, Yuanhao, AU - Zhong, Yijiang, PY - 2023 SN - 0824894936 0824894928 0824895789 PB - University of Hawai'i Press DB - UniCat KW - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 KW - -COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 KW - -Religious aspects. KW - Religious aspects. KW - -Epidemics KW - asia epidemic. KW - asia pandemic. KW - coronavirus. KW - covid-19 asia. KW - public health coronavirus. KW - religion coronavirus. KW - religion covid-19. KW - religion medicine. KW - religion public health. KW - -asia epidemic. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119354251 AB - 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. (Online content, including video and additional images, is available at https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102323.) 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. ER -