CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age

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CoronAsur

Asian Religions in the Covidian Age

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

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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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Hertzman Emily Zoe :

Emily Zoe Hertzman is research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Lang Natalie :

Natalie Lang is research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.Larson Erica M. :

Erica M. Larson is research fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Lorea Carola E. :

Carola E. Lorea is senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Hertzman Emily Zoe :

Emily Zoe Hertzman is research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Lang Natalie :

Natalie Lang is research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.Larson Erica M. :

Erica M. Larson is research fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Chong Terence :

Terence Chong is deputy director of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and senior fellow in its Regional Social & Cultural Studies Programme.Lorea Carola E. :

Carola E. Lorea is senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Emily Zoe Hertzman (Editor)
Emily Zoe Hertzman is research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Natalie Lang (Editor)
Natalie Lang is research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

Erica M. Larson (Editor)
Erica M. Larson is research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Carola E. Lorea (Editor)
Carola E. Lorea is senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

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Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Sozialstruktur, soziales Leben, Bevölkerung, Sozialanthropologie

Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	v
Acknowledgments Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xi
Note on Online Content Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xiii
Introduction—Asian Religions in the Covidian Age Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson und Carola E. Lorea Open Access PDF downloaden	1
Section I—Corona Etiologies: How Zoonoses Fit into Theologies, Cosmologies, and Myths
1. Reshaping Traditional Culture in Bangladesh:The Folklore of Corona Times Saymon Zakaria und Carola E. Lorea Open Access PDF downloaden	42
2. Monster for Covid Struggle: The Life of a Japanese Yōkaifrom Prophecy to Expression Lei Ting und Zhao Yuanhao Open Access PDF downloaden	48
3. “Three Cs” and the Three Mysteries: How Esoteric Buddhism Contributed to the Containment of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan Yijiang Zhong Open Access PDF downloaden	53
4. New Diseases, Old Deities: Revisiting Sitala Maa during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bengal Deepsikha Dasgupta Open Access PDF downloaden	58
5. Turmeric and Neem: Sacred Plants, Disease Goddesses, and Epidemics in Popular Hinduism Indira Arumugam Open Access PDF downloaden	62
6. Saint Corona, Coronasur, and Corona Devi: Embodied Relationships between Religion and Disease Natalie Lang Open Access PDF downloaden	68
7. Why Was Thousand-Hand Guanyin Late for the Meeting?:Implications of Religious Humor during COVID-19 Dean Wang Open Access PDF downloaden	73
8. Cosmologies, Cartoons, Commentaries: COVID-19,Humor, and the Seventh Lunar Month Festival in 2020 Singapore Esmond Chuah Meng Soh Open Access PDF downloaden	78
Section II—Ritual Innovation and New Media: Pandemic Negotiations of Efficacy and Virtuality
9. Puppets Wearing Masks: Fighting with Batara Corona in Javanese Wayang Kulit Marianna Lis Open Access PDF downloaden	90
10. Catholic Televisuality in the Time of Pandemic:A Philippine Perspective Louie Jon A. Sánchez Open Access PDF downloaden	95
11. “Burden Us Not with That Which We Have No Ability to Bear”:Cultivating Endurance through Digital Connection in Ramadan Yasmeen Arif Open Access PDF downloaden	100
12. Cyber Dharma: Celebrating E-Vesak in Singapore Jack Meng Tat Chia Open Access PDF downloaden	106
13. Ritual Adaptations on Telok Ayer: Liturgical Negotiations in a Chinese Temple and a Methodist Church Lynn Wong Open Access PDF downloaden	110
14. Parsis and Ritual Innovation: Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Mumbai during the Pandemic Mariano Errichiello Open Access PDF downloaden	115
Section III—Viral Sensorium: Embodiment at a Time of Social Distancing
15. “We Knew It!”: Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19 Sinah Theres Kloβ Open Access PDF downloaden	129
16. A Bread and Wine Issue: “Losing” the Eucharist during the Pandemic Beverly Anne Devakishen Open Access PDF downloaden	134
17. Touchless Technology, Untouchability,and the COVID-19 Pandemic Ankana Das Open Access PDF downloaden	139
18. 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 und Mukul Pandey Open Access PDF downloaden	144
19. De-sensorializing and Disembodying Chinese Religions in Singapore amid the COVID-19 Pandemic Show Ying Ruo Open Access PDF downloaden	150
20. Gods Have Eyes: Praying Online in Singapore Alvin Eng Hui Lim Open Access PDF downloaden	155
Section IV—Spatial Sacred Reconfigurations: The “Place” of Religion in the Covidian Age
21. The Disruption of Charisma in Southeast Asian Megachurches Terence Chong und Daniel P.S. Goh Open Access PDF downloaden	167
22. #Minimosque: Cov-Eid as Image, Event, and Archive Faizah Zakaria Open Access PDF downloaden	173
23. “All of Singapore Is Now a Zawiya”: Shadhili Sufism and Sensorial Challenges to Worshiping from Home Muhammad Lutfi Bin Othman Open Access PDF downloaden	178
24. To Go or Not to Go?: Mazu’s Annual Procession in Taiwan 2020 Chang Hsun, Lim Peng Chew und Show Ying Ruo Open Access PDF downloaden	183
25. COVID-19 and Dao Mau’s Ritual Practitioners: Shaping the Notion of Social Responsibility Tran Thi Thuy Binh Open Access PDF downloaden	187
Section V—Old Tensions, New Solidarities: Collisions of Faith and Politics
26. Sonic Fields of Protection in Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Pandemic Nalika Gajaweera und Neena Mahadev Open Access PDF downloaden	199
27. Seeking Solidarity: Rethinking the Muslim Community in the Pandemic Era Nurul Fadiah Johari Open Access PDF downloaden	203
28. Serving the Other during the Pandemic: Hindu Nationalist Groups and Covid Relief in India Malini Bhattacharjee Open Access PDF downloaden	208
29. Moral Challenges at the Intersection of Religion, Politics,and COVID-19 in Pakistan Philipp Zehmisch Open Access PDF downloaden	213
30. Miracle Cure for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Kali and the Politics behind Dhammika Paniya Catherine West und Kanchana Dodan Godage Open Access PDF downloaden	218
31. COVID-19 and the Rohingyas: Islamic Solidarity and Bottom-Up Initiatives in Aceh Nia Deliana Open Access PDF downloaden	223
Section VI—Religiopolitical Economies of COVID-19: Between Aid and Loss
32. Delivering from Suffering in the Final Era: Yiguandao’s Response from Aid to Salvation Shen Yeh-Ying Open Access PDF downloaden	236
33. The Performance of Hoa Hao Buddhists’ Charity Kitchens in Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Vietnam Vo Duy Thanh Open Access PDF downloaden	241
34.The Cap Go Meh That Never Happened Emily Zoe Hertzman Open Access PDF downloaden	247
35. The Pandemic and Its Effect on the Performance of Hajj Pilgrimage in Malaysia Siti Zubaidah Ismail Open Access PDF downloaden	253
36. Buddhist Temples as Shelters for Vietnamese Migrants in Japan Yuki Shiozaki Open Access PDF downloaden	259
37.Who Owns the Temple Gold? Swayam Bagaria Open Access PDF downloaden	264
38.COVID-19 and Shifting Practices of Islamic Charity Amelia Fauzia Open Access PDF downloaden	270
Epilogue Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson und Carola E. Lorea Open Access PDF downloaden	275
References Open Access PDF downloaden	285
Contributors Open Access PDF downloaden	327
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	335

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coronavirus; asia epidemic; asia pandemic; public health coronavirus; covid-19 asia; religion coronavirus; religion covid-19; religion public health; religion medicine

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