This paper explores how criticism surrounding the ethics and safety of biomedical technologies circulates and ‘converts’ through global–local religious encounters, producing new claims of moral opposition and rights to religious freedom. The paper is concerned with the question of what rhetorical devices make vaccine safety doubt relevant to religiously Orthodox settings and what implications arise? Based on an ethnographic study of vaccine decision-making and non-vaccination advocacy in Jerusalem, the paper examines how opposition is forged amidst evolving global–local encounters and relations. The data reveal how Christian activists attempt to engender ethical and moral opposition to vaccination among American Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem by ‘converting’ public criticism around safety into a religious discourse of bodily governance. Pinpointing how critiques of biomedical technologies discursively ‘convert’ offers a conceptual template in anthropology to chart how counter-positions are formed and transformed amidst evolving tensions between biomedical and religious cosmologies.

本文探讨了围绕生物医学技术的伦理和安全的批评如何通过全球-当地的宗教相遇传播和“转化”，产生道德反对和宗教自由权利的新主张。该论文关注的问题是什么修辞手段使疫苗安全性怀疑与宗教东正教环境相关以及会产生什么影响？基于对耶路撒冷疫苗决策和非疫苗接种倡导的民族志研究，本文研究了在不断演变的全球-地方遭遇和关系中，反对派是如何形成的。这些数据揭示了基督教活动家如何试图通过将公众对安全的批评“转化”为身体治理的宗教话语，从而在耶路撒冷的美国东正教犹太人中引发对疫苗接种的道德和道德反对。