UID:
almahu_9949548781102882
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.) :
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31 b&w illustrations
ISBN:
0-8248-9493-6
Content:
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.
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Reshaping Traditional Culture in Bangladesh: The Folklore of Corona Times / Saymon Zakaria, translated by Carola E. Lorea -- Monster for Covid Struggle: The Life of a Japanese Yōkai from Prophecy to Expression / Lei Ting and Zhao Yuanhao -- "Three Cs" and the Three Mysteries: How Esoteric Buddhism Contributed to the Containment of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan / Yijiang Zhong -- New Diseases, Old Deities: Revisiting Sitala Maa during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bengal / Deepsikha Dasgupta -- Turmeric and Neem: Sacred Plants, Disease Goddesses, and Epidemics in Popular Hinduism / Indira Arumugam -- Saint Corona, Coronasur, and Corona Devi: Embodied Relationships between Religion and Disease / Natalie Lang -- Why Was Thousand-Hand Guanyin Late for the Meeting? Implications of Religious Humor during COVID-19 / Dean Wang -- Cosmologies, Cartoons, Commentaries: COVID-19, Humor, and the Seventh Lunar Month Festival in 2020 Singapore / Esmond Chuah Meng Soh -- Puppets Wearing Masks: Fighting with Batara Corona in Javanese Wayang Kulit / Marianna Lis -- Catholic Televisuality in the Time of Pandemic: A Philippine Perspective / Louie Jon A. Sánchez -- "Burden Us Not with That Which We Have No Ability to Bear": Cultivating Endurance through Digital Connection in Ramadan / Yasmeen Arif -- Cyber Dharma: Celebrating E-Vesak in Singapore / Jack Meng-Tat Chia --
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Ritual Adaptations on Telok Ayer: Liturgical Negotiations in a Chinese Temple and a Methodist Church / Lynn Wong -- Parsis and Ritual Innovation: Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Mumbai during the Pandemic / Mariano Errichiello -- "We Knew It!": Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19 / Sinah Theres Kloss -- A Bread and Wine Issue: "Losing" the Eucharist during the Pandemic / Beverly Anne Devakishen -- Touchless Technology, Untouchability, and the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ankana Das -- The Sonic and the Somatic: Matua Healing Practices during COVID-19 / Raka Banerjee, Dishani Roy, Carola E. Lorea, Fatema Aarshe, Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan, and Mukul Pandey -- De-sensorializing and Disembodying Chinese Religions in Singapore amid the COVID-19 Pandemic / Show Ying Ruo -- Gods Have Eyes: Praying Online in Singapore / Alvin Eng Hui Lim -- The Disruption of Charisma in Southeast Asian Megachurches / Terence Chong and Daniel P.S. Goh -- #Minimosque: Cov-Eid as Image, Event, and Archive / Faizah Zakaria -- "All of Singapore Is Now a Zawiya": Shadhili Sufism and Sensorial Challenges to Worshiping from Home / Muhammad Lutfi Bin Othman -- To Go or Not to Go? Mazu's Annual Procession in Taiwan 2020 / Chang Hsun and Lim Peng Chew, translated by Show Ying Ruo -- COVID-19 and Dao Mau's Ritual Practitioners: Shaping the Notion of Social Responsibility / Tran Thi Thuy Binh --
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Sonic Fields of Protection in Sri Lanka's COVID-19 Pandemic / Nalika Gajaweera and Neena Mahadev -- Seeking Solidarity: Rethinking the Muslim Community in the Pandemic Era / Nurul Fadiah Johari -- Serving the Other during the Pandemic: Hindu Nationalist Groups and Covid Relief in India / Malini Bhattacharjee -- Moral Challenges at the Intersection of Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in Pakistan / Philipp Zehmisch -- Miracle Cure for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Kali and the Politics behind Dhammika Paniya / Catherine West and Kanchana Dodan Godage -- COVID-19 and the Rohingyas: Islamic Solidarity and Bottom-Up Initiatives in Aceh / Nia Deliana -- Delivering from Suffering in the Final Era: Yiguandao's Response from Aid to Salvation / Shen Yeh-Ying -- The Performance of Hoa Hao Buddhists' Charity Kitchens in Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Vietnam / Vo Duy Thanh -- The Cap Go Meh That Never Happened / Emily Zoe Hertzman -- The Pandemic and Its Effect on the Performance of Hajj Pilgrimage in Malaysia / Siti Zubaidah Ismail -- Buddhist Temples as Shelters for Vietnamese Migrants in Japan / Yuki Shiozaki -- Who Owns the Temple Gold? / Swayam Bagaria -- COVID-19 and Shifting Practices of Islamic Charity / Amelia Fauzia.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824894924
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8248-9492-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780824894931
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