AFRICA SEMINAR: Green Religious Activism in Africa

How are religious actors in Africa relating to growing environmental concerns and changing weather patterns? This seminar aims to discuss the role of spiritual ecologies and religious motivations in response to climate change. By engaging the religious foregrounds and backgrounds in articulations of eco-spiritual piety and practice, we invite to a debate on the interplay between contextual circumstances, history and religious interpretation that today unfolds in green religious activism.

Reception following the seminar.

Speakers

Adriaan van Klinken (Leeds University), Wangari Maathai ’s Contribution to the Ecology of Religion: Interweaving Biblical and Indigenous Knowledges

Juliane Stork (Humboldt University), Climate change reactions in African Initiated Churches in South Africa

Hans Olsson (University of Copenhagen), “Farming God’s Way”: Cultivating green activism?

This event is part of a project that has recived funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 843798