CoronAsur
Hertzman, Emily Zoe / Lang, Natalie / Larson, Erica M. / Aarshe, Fatema / Arif, Yasmeen / Arumugam, Indira / Hertzman, Emily Zoe / Lang, Natalie / Larson, Erica M. / Lorea, Carola E.
By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were mobilized to make sense of Covid, including a repertoire of gods and demons like Coronasur, the virus depicted with the horns and fangs of a traditio...