Religious Groups, the Government, and the Pandemic: The Missing Voice of Religious Ethicists

Abstract

The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics. In her essay, Professor M. Cathleen Kaveny argues for the involvement of religious ethicists in making public health and other policy decisions.