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.
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