Believers from a variety of faith communities were asked to assess how the Covid pandemic has affected their faith. The anthology collects their responses to key questions, such as: · How does your faith explain why such events occur?
· How has it affected your religious practices?
· What changes has it necessitated?
· What differences might we expect once the pandemic is over?
· What have we learned from it? Two exponents of each major religion and a number of minority faiths comment on these issues, combined with a concluding essay by the editors assessing the overall impact of the pandemic on religion worldwide. Faiths explored include Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Sikh Baha'i, Jain, African Traditional Religion, Zoroastrian, Unitarian, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Science.

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Contents
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of acronyms
1 Covid and religion
2 Pandemics and Jewish responses
3 Some Jewish perspectives from the United States
4 Covid, Communion and Christianity
5 We can’t forget: Conservative Protestants in the Covid-19 pandemic
6 ‘What people’s hands have earned’: Islamic perspectives on Covid
7 Glimpses into Islamic perspectives and practice
8 Turning to medicine is not turning away from God: Hindu resilience in a pandemic
9 Chanting, karma, love and Zoom: Hindu responses to a pandemic
10 The Buddha’s prescription for the world: How people used Buddhism to cope with the pandemic
11 Covid and Theravada Buddhism
12 Fostering everyday culture at Shinto shrines under Covid
13 The significance of matsuri festivals in Shinto during epidemics
14 Covid and sewa: Practising Sikhi during a global pandemic
15 Sikh scriptemics during pandemic
16 Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic: Building resilience: Reflections of a Bahá’í
17 World-embracing vision against world-threatening pandemic
18 Jains and Covid-19
19 Jain perceptions of the pandemic
20 African religion: Vibrant amid Covid-19 in Eswatini
21 Opening our eyes: Covid-19 and indigenous funeral processes in African Traditional Religion
22 Zarathustra’s wisdom: Accepting natural consequences
23 Transforming challenges into progress: A Zoroastrian perspective
24 Unitarians and global catastrophe: A pandemic, a war and a climate emergency
25 Unitarian Universalists face Covid: Challenges, surprises and new pathways
26 When ‘No resident will say: “I am sick”’: The global religious response of Jehovah’s Witnesses to the Covid-19 pandemic
27 How one Jehovah’s Witness community negotiated the ride of the ‘pale horse’
28 Practising my Christian Science faith during the Covid-19 pandemic
29 Personal experiences of the Christian Science faith during Covid
30 Covid and Theology
31 What have we learned?
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