Institut für Ethnologie
13.05.25: Vortrag im Ethnologischen Kolloquium von Joel Robbins
9. Mai 2025, von Christina Fastner
Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge) zum Thema:
The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change
Many people have come to the conclusion that simply sharing the scientific data on global warming with the public has not been enough to motivate the kind of consistent action that would be needed to successfully address the threat it presents. In this lecture I consider whether religion might have some unique role to play in bringing such action about. At the core of my argument are the claims that religions often transform everyday understandings of temporality and that notions of temporality in turn profoundly shape the way people approach realizing the values they hold, including those related to climate change. In light of these claims, I suggest that religion can play a role in fostering climate action that many other institutions have not been able to play successfully. Throughout the lecture, I draw on work in the anthropology of religion and time, one the one hand, and in the philosophy of values, on the other, to build my argument.
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Das Kolloquium findet immer dienstags im großen Seminarraum des Instituts statt:
Institut für Ethnologie
Seminarraum 222, 2. OG
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Westflügel
20146 Hamburg