This is to announce the publication of the Open Access multimedia volume CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age (University of Hawaii Press, 2023), edited by Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson, and Carola Lorea.

This phygital book developed in tandem with the Asia-focused research blog CoronAsur, which was introduced on Religious Matters as part of Dossier Corona in 2020.

CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age provides various insights into how Asian religions have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. In the introduction, the editors propose cross-cutting lenses to analyze religions and pandemics globally, such as the negotiation of epidemic and epistemic authority, and establish key ideas of “enchanted hygiene”, “sanitized sacred” and other themes resulting from this project. The essays are short, accessible, and enriched with audiovisual resources.