Faith, Care, Despair. Affect and Religion in Climate Activism
(D12#)
Subject Area
Empirical Social Research
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721
This anthropological sub-project explores the affective dynamics of contemporary religious and secular climate activist movements. The ethnographic field research, which takes place mainly in Berlin, includes participant observation at protest actions and network meetings as well as semi-structured interviews and participatory survey methods with members of climate activist groups. The project aims at a nuanced understanding of how specific forms of affectively grounded relations between religious and secular actors affect processes of de-/mobilization both within and between groups engaged in environmental protection and climate activism.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
