This special issue explores care practices for living with others within relationships between people, things, and deities. An increasing number of studies have focused on the concept of care across various fields. Avoiding a monolithic and romanticized view of care, research in care ethics and science and technology studies (STS) have discussed care from the perspective of ethics, politics, and practice, and highlighted the ambiguity of care, materiality, and more-than-human actors.
However, entanglements between deities and care have not been adequately discussed. This special issue argues that care is practiced through welfare, medicine, technology, and rituals to improve relationships between people, things, and deities. Furthermore, this introductory article examines the experimental process of everyday care practices, focusing on the tensions of togetherness and vulnerability. This study contributes to further discussions on care practice as a constant negotiation with heterogeneous others in everyday life.
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