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Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Acronyms -- Covid and Religion / Christopher Lewis, (Dean Emeritus, Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, UK) -- Pandemics and Jewish Responses / Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky, USA) -- Some Jewish Perspectives from the United States / David J. Zucker (Rabbi and Author, UK) -- Covid, Communion and Christianity / Clare Amos (World Council of Churches, Switzerland) -- We Can't Forget: Conservative Protestants in the COVID-19 Pandemic / Camille Kaminski Lewis (Furman University, USA) -- “What people's hands have earned”: Islamic perspectives on Covid / Usama Hasan (Al Quran Society, UK) -- Glimpses into Islamic Perspectives and Practice / Farhana Mayer (University of Oxford, UK) -- Turning to Medicine is Not Turning Away from God: Hindu Resilience in a Pandemic / Anantanand Rambachan (St Olaf College, Minnesota, USA) -- Karma, Chanting, Love, and Zoom; Hindu Responses to a Pandemic / Shaunaka Rishi Das (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK) and Utsa Bose -- The Buddha's Prescription for the World: How People Used Buddhism to Cope with the Pandemic / Bogod̀ Seelawimala (Head of the London Buddhist Vihara and the Chief Sangha Nayaka of Great Britain, UK) -- Covid and Theravada Buddhism / Peter Harvey (University of Sunderland, UK) -- Fostering Everyday Culture at Shinto Shrines under Covid / Taishi Kato (Shinto Priest, Hattori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka, Japan) -- The Significance of Matsuri festivals in Shinto during Epidemics / Koji Suga (Kokugakuin University, Japan) -- Covid and Sewa: Practising Sikhi during a Global Pandemic / Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal (University of Southern California Riverside, USA) -- Sikh Scriptemics during Pandemic / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh (Colby College, USA) -- Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic: Building Resilience: Reflections of a Bah̀'̕ / Wendi Momen (University of Derby, UK) -- World-Embracing Vision Against World-Threatening Pandemic – George Merchant Ballentyne (Leicester Council of Faiths, UK) -- Jains and Covid-19 / Vinod Kapashi (World Congress of Faiths, UK) -- Jain Perceptions of the Pandemic / Kumarpal Desai -- African Religion – Vibrant amid Covid-19 in Eswatini / Hebron L Ndlovu (University of Swaziland, Swaziland) -- Opening our eyes: Covid-19 and Indigenous Funeral Processes in African Traditional Religion / Nokuzola Mndende (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) -- Zarathustra's Wisdom: Accepting Natural Consequences / Jehangir Sarosh (The World Council of Religions for Peace) -- Transforming Challenges into Progress: A Zoroastrian Perspective / Karishma Koka (University of Cambridge, UK) -- Unitarians and global catastrophe: a pandemic, a war and a climate emergency / Feargus O'Connor (World Congress of Faiths, UK) -- Unitarian Universalists Face Covid: Challenges, Surprises, and New Pathways / Jay Atkinson (Starr King School, USA) -- 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) -- How one Jehovah's Witness community negotiated the ride of the 'pale horse' / Gary Perkins (Independent Scholar, UK) -- Practising my Christian Science Faith during the Covid-19 Pandemic / Shirley Paulson (Formerly Head of Ecumenical Affairs, Christian Science Church, USA) -- Personal Experiences of the Christian Science Faith during Covid / Susan Searle, (Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia, Australia) -- Covid and Theology / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- What Have We Learned? / George D. Chryssides -- Index. |
