Viral Devotionality and Christian Solidarity In/Beyond Borneo
By Liana Chua As COVID-19 began to spread across Malaysia in early 2020, Jesus began to materialise with increasing frequency on my Facebook feed. A familiar figure with light skin,...
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Yoga and Immunity in the Time of the Pandemic
By Tuhina Ganguly The “stay fit” mantra seems to have found renewed salience in the present pandemic context in India and globally as privileged people find themselves at home, stranded...
‘Quarantine is Godly’, but in the Fight against Corona, ‘the Devil is in the Details’
By Erik Meinema ‘Quarantine is Godly’, but in the fight against Corona, ‘the Devil is in the details’: Spiritual danger, disease, and the Kenyan nation. As a dangerous entity of...
Going Online: How Corona Transforms Christian Worship
By Veerle Dijkstra In the period of heightened insecurity the COVID-19 pandemic has created, the need for community and spiritual solace is high. Yet, for religious people the current ‘five...
“Coronavirus is a Ghost of the West”: Conspiratorial Explanations of the Covid-19 Pandemic among some Religious Leaders in Nigeria
By Murtala Ibrahim The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the entire world into a serious crisis with a far-reaching socio-economic impact that is unprecedented in recent history. When...
Vulnerabilities and Interventions in Times of Corona: Bodies, Food and Religion in South Africa
By Johan Strijdom If the Coronavirus pandemic has rendered visible the unequal vulnerability to the virus across distinctions of class, gender, age and race, it is the vulnerability of the...
Temporalities of the Pandemic and a Proposed Research Agenda About Religion
By Rodrigo Toniol A pandemic is not simply created by a powerful contagious biological agent that puts millions of lives at risk. Pandemics are also the result of laws, decrees,...
