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CoronAsur is a unique and timely collection that engages with the question of how Asian religions dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Its innovative format makes for entertaining and thought-provoking reading with plenty of room for creative comparison. The chapters offer powerful vignettes of people around the world innovatively coping with the restrictions that the pandemic imposed on how we share our lives with others.--Bernardo Enrique Brown, International Christian University This is a superb volume, one that comprises an invaluable and unmatched collection of reports on the dynamic range of ways the pandemic shaped, and was shaped by, religious people and their practices across Asia. It will remain a precious resource for scholars who must delve into the historical record to understand how calamity creates religion.--Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University Through abundant case studies of fascinating social practices, CoronAsur takes us into Asian religious communities as they transmitted and altered their ritual performances and cosmologies during an exceptional time. The editors and authors have carefully analyzed and systematically documented major changes and challenges brought by COVID-19 from a post-secular perspective through broad-scale pandemic research modalities. Their work is empirically rich and well-written.--Fatimah Husein, Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies

“CoronAsur is a unique and timely collection that engages with the question of how Asian religions dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Its innovative format makes for entertaining and thought-provoking reading with plenty of room for creative comparison. The chapters offer powerful vignettes of people around the world innovatively coping with the restrictions that the pandemic imposed on how we share our lives with others.” - Bernardo Enrique Brown, International Christian University “Through abundant case studies of fascinating social practices, CoronAsur takes us into Asian religious communities as they transmitted and altered their ritual performances and cosmologies during an exceptional time. The editors and authors have carefully analyzed and systematically documented major changes and challenges brought by COVID-19 from a post-secular perspective through broad-scale pandemic research modalities. Their work is empirically rich and well-written.” - Fatimah Husein, Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies “This is a superb volume, one that comprises an invaluable and unmatched collection of reports on the dynamic range of ways the pandemic shaped, and was shaped by, religious people and their practices across Asia. It will remain a precious resource for scholars who must delve into the historical record to understand how calamity creates religion.” - Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University

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Emily Zoe Hertzman is research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Natalie Lang is research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. Erica M. Larson is research fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Carola E. Lorea is senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

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