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06.12.2024 13:34

“Religions are important for dealing with climate change and hunger”

Tim Eckes Zentrum für Wissenschaftskommunikation
Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ an der Universität Münster

    US anthropologist Naveeda Khan from Johns Hopkins University will talk at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” – Lecture about the importance of religion for dealing with the effects of climate change, such as hunger – COP29 observer of Bangladesh delegation to come to Münster – Public evening lecture in English next Tuesday

    US anthropologist Naveeda Khan from Johns Hopkins University will be speaking at the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” next Tuesday about the complex interplay between religious traditions, climate change and hunger. “Religious traditions have always been tied to ideas about the relationship between humans and their natural environment”, explains anthropologist Dorothea Schulz from the Cluster of Excellence. “Climate change often sees religious traditions gain in importance because they can help – or, indeed, hinder – people when it comes to coping with the daily effects of climate change such as hunger”. Schulz, together with Jelena Radovanovic, Roii Ball and Nandagopal Menon, has invited Naveeda Khan, who was born in Bangladesh, to Münster to speak on the importance of religion for climate change through the example of the Muslim population along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh.

    “Khan’s research shows how religious interpretations of Islam, for example, shape how people respond spiritually and physically to famines, while also influencing their feelings of belonging to a river landscape that is exposed to the disastrous effects of climate change”. Entitled “Ensouling Hunger”, the lecture will take place at Johannisstraße 1, Room JO 01 on 10 December 2024 at 6:15 pm. The event is part of the research that the interdisciplinary working group “Religious Landscapes and Environmental Devotion” is carrying out at the Cluster of Excellence on the relationship between religion, landscape and environment.

    Naveeda Khan’s research on the relationship between religions, the environment and climate is related to current political attempts to combat global warming internationally. Khan recently participated as an observer of the Bangladesh delegation at the 29th UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, at which representatives of several poor and island nations left in protest over what they considered to be insufficient commitments from Western industrialized nations towards combating the negative impacts of climate change in their countries.

    In her book “In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South” (Fordham University Press, 2023) Khan presents a careful analysis of global climate policy. Drawing on her experience of nine world climate conferences, she shows why countries of the Global South participate in protracted climate negotiations despite the odds being against favorable results for them, and what narratives, political styles and strategies have guided the negotiations. (tec/vvm)


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