The Covid-19 pandemic presented enormous challenges for secular and religious institutions as well as religion scholars engaged in the critical study of religion. The unique opportunities for scholars of religion include questions about the very nature of our academic work. Inclusive of scholarly research and dissemination, along with the administrative work and service that facilitates this, is academic work to draw from the rich wellspring of the traditions we study and represent, or does it neglect them in the daily affairs of our work? With a particular regional focus, and despite traditional academic disciplinary conventions within the critical study of religion, this article argues that religious traditions and the critical appropriations of their wisdom and ongoing actions provide an important reckoning with the reality of the ever-changing and often terrible conditions in the contemporary world. They provide a critical feature of what it means to cultivate an ecology of ethical responsibility and care.

Covid-19 大流行给世俗和宗教机构以及从事批判性宗教研究的宗教学者带来了巨大挑战。宗教学者的独特机会包括关于我们学术工作本质的问题。包括学术研究和传播，以及促进这一点的行政工作和服务，学术工作是从我们研究和代表的传统的丰富源泉中汲取灵感，还是在我们的日常工作中忽略了它们？以特定的区域为重点，尽管在宗教批判性研究中存在传统的学术学科惯例，本文认为，宗教传统及其智慧和持续行动的批判性占有为当代世界不断变化且往往是可怕的条件的现实提供了重要的思考。它们提供了培养道德责任和关怀生态的重要特征。