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About this blog

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

Submission guidelines

Blogs on CoronAsur : Religion and COVID-19 are written for a broad audience interested in religion, anthropology, history and related topics. All articles should be written with a non-specialist, public audience in mind, including policy makers, the media, students, and the general public.

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Call for Contributors

We are interested in critical reflections and multimodal contributions that can add to the understanding of the mutual shaping of religion and society during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Team members

Kenneth DEAN, Carola LOREA, Clair HURFORD, Fabian GRAHAM, Nan OUYANG, Natalie LANG, Ning Ning CHEN, Ying Ruo SHOW, Alicia CHAN & Henry KWAN

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