Notes on Contributors
Foreword, Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Acknowledgements
Table of Acronyms
1. Covid and Religion - Christopher Lewis, (Dean Emeritus, Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, UK)
2. Pandemics and Jewish Responses - Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky, USA)
3. Some Jewish Perspectives from the United States - David J. Zucker (Rabbi and Author, UK)
4. Covid, Communion and Christianity - Clare Amos (World Council of Churches, Switzerland)
5. We Can't Forget: Conservative Protestants in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Camille Kaminski Lewis (Furman University, USA)
6. "What people's hands have earned": Islamic perspectives on Covid - Usama Hasan (Al Quran Society, UK)
7. Glimpses into Islamic Perspectives and Practice - Farhana Mayer (University of Oxford, UK)
8. Turning to Medicine is Not Turning Away from God: Hindu Resilience in a Pandemic - Anantanand Rambachan (St Olaf College, Minnesota, USA)
9. Karma, Chanting, Love, and Zoom; Hindu Responses to a Pandemic - Shaunaka Rishi Das (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK) and Utsa Bose
10. The Buddha's Prescription for the World: How People Used Buddhism to Cope with the Pandemic - Bogodá Seelawimala (Head of the London Buddhist Vihara and the Chief Sangha Nayaka of Great Britain, UK)
11. Covid and Theravada Buddhism - Peter Harvey (University of Sunderland, UK)
12. Fostering Everyday Culture at Shinto Shrines under Covid - Taishi Kato (Shinto Priest, Hattori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka, Japan)
13. The Significance of Matsuri festivals in Shinto during Epidemics - Koji Suga (Kokugakuin University, Japan)
14. Covid and Sewa: Practising Sikhi during a Global Pandemic - Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal (University of Southern California Riverside, USA)
15. Sikh Scriptemics during Pandemic - Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh (Colby College, USA)
16. Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic: Building Resilience: Reflections of a Bahá'í - Wendi Momen (University of Derby, UK)
17. World-Embracing Vision Against World-Threatening Pandemic - George Merchant Ballentyne (Leicester Council of Faiths, UK)
18. Jains and Covid-19 - Vinod Kapashi (World Congress of Faiths, UK)
19. Jain Perceptions of the Pandemic - Kumarpal Desai
20. African Religion - Vibrant amid Covid-19 in Eswatini - Hebron L Ndlovu (University of Swaziland, Swaziland)
21. Opening our eyes: Covid-19 and Indigenous Funeral Processes in African Traditional Religion - Nokuzola Mndende (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)
22. Zarathustra's Wisdom: Accepting Natural Consequences - Jehangir Sarosh (The World Council of Religions for Peace)
23. Transforming Challenges into Progress: A Zoroastrian Perspective - Karishma Koka (University of Cambridge, UK)
24. Unitarians and global catastrophe: a pandemic, a war and a climate emergency - Feargus O'Connor (World Congress of Faiths, UK)
25. Unitarian Universalists Face Covid: Challenges, Surprises, and New Pathways - Jay Atkinson (Starr King School, USA)
26. When 'No Resident Will Say: "I Am Sick"' - The Global Religious Response of Jehovah's Witnesses to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Jolene Chu (Archivist, World Headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses, USA)
27. How one Jehovah's Witness community negotiated the ride of the 'pale horse' - Gary Perkins (Independent Scholar, UK)
28. Practising my Christian Science Faith during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Shirley Paulson (Formerly Head of Ecumenical Affairs, Christian Science Church, USA)
29. Personal Experiences of the Christian Science Faith during Covid - Susan Searle, (Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia, Australia)
30. Covid and Theology - Dan Cohn-Sherbok
31. What Have We Learned? - George D. Chryssides
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