Hybrid event with host Dr Susanna Crockford (University of Exeter) and respondents Dougald Hine , Christopher Southgate and Jo Hamilton

A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change at the End of a World presents multi-sited ethnographic work in the US and Northern Europe that shows how people are responding to climate change as the end of the world. The theological motif of apocalypse runs strong in climate discourse, but this work goes beyond that to illustrate many more theological motifs derived from Protestant Christianity that shape and constrain climate discourse.

In this launch event, I will introduce the book and its main arguments, and then three respondents will develop the conversation on the work to explore how religion, climate science, and activism interact. Dougald Hine is a writer and activist, one of the co-authors of the Uncivilisation Manifesto that launched the Dark Mountain festivals and anthologies, and one of the key interlocutors who features in the book. Christopher Southgate is an ecotheologian from the University of Exeter. Jo Hamilton is a human geographer from the University of Exeter.

Venue: Byrne House, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus

Online: via Zoom

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