Pandemic and Religion
Virtual Graduate Student Conference
COVID-19 has drastically altered life in almost every way, including religious life. Religious gatherings have been restricted, worship has shifted online to significantly reshaped formats,听hospital chaplaincy faces new challenges, complaints of infringed religious liberty have emerged, churches have actively subverted mask or social-distancing orders, and the future of in-person worship might be forever changed.
Join the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life for its first graduate student conference exploring the impact of COVID-19 on religion in the United States. Graduate students from seventeen institutions across the nation will present papers from multiple disciplines addressing issues arising now, in the midst of COVID's impact, as well as issues linked to past pandemics and possible future issues arising from COVID's lasting influence on religion in the U.S. context.
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2021
Time: 8:45am - 3:30pm
Registration via our website is now closed. Please send registration requests to Zac Karanovich:听robert.karanovich@bc.edu
� Deborah Ann Wong, Duke Divinity School:
淟iturgy in Lockdown: Expanding the Notion of Church�
� Edmund Lazzari, Marquette University:
淰irtual Catholicism?: An Anthropological and Sacramental Critique�
� Dominic Pigneri, The Catholic University of America:
淚s the Laity Non-Essential?: Clericalism and Mass Suspension for COVID-19�
� Tyler J. Fuller, Boston University:
淪ocial Distancing During the Last Supper: Catholic Emotions, Sacramental Adaptation, and Authority During the COVID-19 Pandemic�
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� David C. Quackenbos, Duke Divinity School:
淟oving God and Neighbor: Reflections on Martin Luther Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague (1527)�
� Emily Nelms Chastain, Boston University School of Theology:
淭hree Simple Rules: How Birmingham Methodists Conveyed a Wesleyan Theological Framework and Reframed Their Practices to Save Lives from Both Cholera and Influenza�
� Derek Uejo, Duke Divinity School:
淢apping Martyrological Language: The Martyrdom of Polycarp and The Life of St. Francis in Conversation with American Christian Uses During the COVID-19 Pandemic�
� Ranana Dine, University of Chicago Divinity School:
淎 Portent and a Wonder�: Tzara檃t, Leprosy, and Its Contemporary Jewish Metaphors�
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� Nick Mitchell, Loyola University Chicago:
淩esponsibility Roots: Looking at and beyond Iris Marion Young Social Connection Model in the Time of Coronavirus�
� Wade Casey, Loyola University Chicago:
淧andemic and Wealth: A Theological Exploration�
� Jack Barsody, Yale Divinity School:
淐OVID, Fratelli Tutti, and the Rise of OnlyFans: How a Pandemic Has Magnified a Digital Throwaway Culture�
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� Dawrell Rich, Drew University:
淢asking a Shouting People: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Black Church Experience�
� Lucy Ballard, Harvard University:
湗A Scourge in Our Ummah:� Wellness and Racial Liberation in U.S. Muslim Pandemic Responses�
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� Danny Ballon, Emory University:
淩eligion as the Most Favored Nation: COVID-19 and the First Amendment at the Supreme Court�
� Anthony Harrison, Boston College:
淚ndividual Liberty and the Common Good: COVID-19 Orders and Civil Disobedience�
� Leonardo D. Mendoza, Loyola Marymount University:
淩eligious Liberty and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ignoring Social Responsibility in the Name of Freedom During a Public Health Crisis�
� Kristoff Reese Grosfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary:
淩eading Karl Barth in the COVID-19 Era: What Even Is Freedom?�
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� Anna Holleman and Joseph Roso, Duke University:
淐ongregational Preparedness on the Eve of COVID-19�
� Andrew Gertner Belfield, Kelly Kossar, Laurel Marshall Potter, Elli Pripas, Boston College & Hebrew College:
淏asic Human Communities: An Interreligious Alternative to Zoom Worship in the Era of COVID�
� James P. Ferus, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University:
淩eframing Liturgical Discourse: Exploring Parish Online Programs in a Time of Pandemic�
� Nicholas D. Sawicki, Fordham Law:
淜icking & Screaming: The Catholic Church Innovation Problem in the Time of COVID-19�
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