1st Edition
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises Isolation, Survival, and #Covidchaos
1. Introduction Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Christian A. Eberhart, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Part 1: Strategies and Theologies Facing Pandemics
2. Pandemic Pūjā: Corona Devi, Coronasur, and how a Viral Twitter Campaign Affirms Analog Ritual Power Dheepa Sundaram
3. Sitting on a Grave: Female Agency and Resistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chiga Village, Kenya Loreen Maseno
4. ‘He Has Filled the Hungry with Good Things’ (Luke 1:53): Theologizing on the Pandemic, Pagpupuri, and Pantries Ma. Maricel S. Ibita and Ma. Marilou S. Ibita
Part 2: Rituals in Times of Trouble
5. Diseased Rites: Magic Tantras and Inflicted Illness Aaron Michael Ullrey
6. "Can a Virus Destroy the Sacred?" The Latvian Experience of Holy Communion during COVID-19 Ilze Ūdre, Dace Balode, and Linards Rozentāls
7. Ritual Reinvention and the Celebration of the Eucharist in Times of Crises: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives Korinna Zamfir
8. Isolation, Community, and Religious Identification: The Ritual World of Early Christian Imprisonment Letters Soham Al-Suadi
Part 3: Plagues, Infections, and Witchcraft
9. Plagues, Withdrawal, and Wayfaring in the Hebrew Bible Elisa Uusimäki
10. The Leper as Transcestor: Queens in Exile Audrey Gale Hall
11. Constructing the Sacred Self: 21st-Century Paganism, Self-care, and Ascetic Witchcraft MiloRhys K. Teplin di Padilla
12. Pedagogy of Death in the Era of #Coronachaos Keith E. McNeal.
Biography
Sravana Borkataky-Varma is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Texas, and a Research Fellow at CSWR, Harvard University.
Christian A. Eberhart is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Houston, Texas, USA.
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is a Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
