Workshop on Religion and Sustainability Featuring Dan Smyer Yü

The following series of workshops on religion and ecology may be of interest to our members, including a talk by scholar and ISSRNC board member Dan Smyer Yü on June 25.

Lecture Series on Religion & Ecology

May 20, June 25, July 8, 2022

Hosted by:
Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, Universität Bonn
Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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How are religion and sustainability relates? Do religious communities contribute to social transformations towards sustainability? And if so, in which ways? Or does religion in fact hinder or counteract sustainability?

The lecture series explores these questions by focusing on the relationship between religious communities and socio-ecological transformations. The starting point is the observation that there has been a strong increase in the engagement with ecological sustainability in religious communities in recent decades, which is referred to as the “greening of religion” (Jonathan Chaplin).

However, the impact of this development on the collective actions of religious communities and the individual actions of their adherents in the areas of ecology and sustainability are still largely unknown. In the lecture series international guest speakers will be looking at Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and traditional African religious communities. Everyone interested is welcome to participate.

Dan Smyer Yü will be giving a talk entitled “A Public Theology of the Anthropocene: Deep Freedom of the Sacred and Sentient Earth,” as part of the June 25 workshop focused on Religion and Sustainability.

More info and Zoom event details for the June 25 event can be found here.