Summary: With the support of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, I will pursue two interrelated goals. First, I will conduct field research in Seoul, South Korea to explore the critical social role that Christianity has played in social and political responses to SARS-CoV-2. Megachurches have been central to public health interventions, as they aroused public anxieties about contagion²biological and social² and were seen as yet undisciplined by modern science. While public conflicts between conservative churches and public health directives have garnered significant attention in both domestic and international media, much less attention has been given to the wide range of church responses to the pandemic. Even less attention has been given to the experiences of everyday religious practitioners, who have had to negotiate their varied commitments to religious and scientific authorities, their understandings of spiritual and physical health, and their commitments to