This is a research blog hosted by the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Grounded in Asia, with a global and comparative outlook, Religion and COVID-19 curates reflections, analysis, opinions, commentary pieces, photographic essays and multimedia contributions written by scholars and practitioners at the interface of the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities and their ritual practices.

We are interested in documenting new forms of religious responses, ritual innovations, and power dynamics at the time of coronavirus in Singapore and the rest of the world. How does the digitization of gatherings impact lived religions? How does the enforcement of hygienic and ‘social distancing’ practices change aesthetic, affective and material dimensions of ritual acts? How are the mutual shapings of religion and society unfolding during a pandemic?

To participate in the conversation, send your abstract to Carola Lorea at aricar@nus.edu.sg, Natalie Lang at arinklgk@nus.edu.sg and Alicia Chan at alicia.c@nus.edu.sg