Foreword- Paul Schwartzentruber; Preface; Notes on Editors and Contributors; COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations: An Introduction and An Invitation-Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese; Part I COVID-19 AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATIONS: ETHICS, POLITICS AND RESPONSIBILITY, Chapter 1 COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility: Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures-Ananta Kumar Giri; Chapter 2 Post-COVID Communities: Immanent Engagements and Intersectional Transversality-Janae Sholtz; Chapter 3 On the Political Use of a Scientific Concept: 'Herd Immunity' and the Unconscious of the COVID-19 Pandemic-Piet Strydom; Chapter 4 Citizen Science, COVID-19 and Ethics- Soraj Hongladarom; Chapter 5 Biopolitics in the Age of Global Pandemics: On the State Regulation of Human Life-Tony See Sin Heng; Chapter 6 Sri Lanka: Politics of COVID-19 and the Rise and Fall of Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government-S. I. Keethaponcalan; Chapter 7 COVID-19 Pandemic: Societal Disvalues as the Ethical Questions-Pius V. Thomas; Chapter 8 The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Life and Public Health-Ravichandran Moorthy and Guido Benny; Part II COVID-19, SPIRITUALITY AND OTHER INITIATIVES IN HOPE AND CREATIVE LEARNING, Chapter 9 What can COVID teach us?-Marcus Bussey; Chapter 10 COVID-19, Social Media, and Desire for Omnipresence: The Search for the Resurrected Body of Christ-Camila Mozzini-Alister; Chapter 11 Corona Pandemic, Evil and the Hope for a Resurgent Future- Gianluigi Segalerba; Chapter 12 The Freedom of Choice in the Face of a Pandemic-Daniel Aigbona; Chapter 13 The Current Crisis due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Philosophical Approach on technological way of handling nature- Deborah Moreira Guimaraes; Chapter 14 COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Global Approach Through Breathing- Edgar Lyra; Chapter 15 Reminder of Being a Global 'Self'-Saji Varghese; Chapter 16 Beyond the Binaries: Cosmic Spirituality for the Pandemic Age- Augustine Pamplany; Afterword-David Blake Willis; Index.