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 community and nation. Using six months of online research and three months of ethnographic field research in Seoul, I will study the experience of Korean pastors and lay Christians during the coronavirus pandemic. Because South Korea has been relatively effective in containing coronavirus outbreaks to date, at the same time as it is home to many of the largest Christian churches in the world, it is an opportune site to explore how congregations negotiate their desires for communion with public health threats of contagion. Bringing together training in anthropology, religious studies, and science and technology studies, this work will demonstrate how Christian ideas and practices both shape and reflect local conceptions of health and science. In addition to contributing to the academic understanding of religion and science under different cultural contexts, but I hope to use this research to inform English-speaking public understandings of Christianity in the pandemic by sharing this research in collaboration with the internationally-syndicated radio program PRI¶V TKe WRUOd and through print media outlets. Second, I will bring this research to a workshop on religion, science, and technology in contemporary South Korea, with the hopes of collaborating on a special journal issue with Korea-based scholars. Additional outputs of this project include the collection of qualitative research data through ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, presentations at Ewha and Arizona State Universities, and a journal article.