Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age: An Interreligious Dialogue - Paperback

by Michael Reid Trice (Editor), Patricia O'Connell Killen (Editor), Mona Siddiqui (Contribution by)

Scholarly insight and reflection on finding meaning in the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a horrific loss of life and had tremendous, long-lasting psychological effects. Diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness are now at much higher levels than they were in 2019. For believers, the pandemic raised questions about the nature of God, increasing the need for pastoral care and resources to make sense of such a deep disruption.

Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age presents twelve reflections on the pandemic and its impact from the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, nonbelieving, and Christian traditions. The chapters offer scholarly insight and rigor while also incorporating personal reflections on what it means to work through such a life-changing event and make meaning in the moments when life confronts us as partial, fragmented, and fragile.

This edited volume will be valuable for students and scholars of multiple faith traditions, as well as those engaged in interreligious dialogue and theology.

Author Biography

Michael Reid Trice, PhD, is Spehar-Halligan professor in constructive theology and founding director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University. He publishes and presents in the areas of religious literacy, pluralism, and structural analysis. He is currently co-editing a multi-author volume on leadership (Georgetown University Press, 2026). As of Fall 2024, he teaches in the Executive Leadership Program through the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. Patricia O'Connell Killen, PhD, is a professor of religion, emerita, and a Humanities Faculty Fellow at Pacific Lutheran University. She has published extensively on religion in the Pacific Northwest, Catholicism in North America, and faith-inspired higher education. Most recently, she co-edited Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest (2022).