About this Event
Longing for Nature in the Context of Massive Urbanization: An Analysis of Enchantment ”Practices Implying Trees“
In the first decades of the new millennium, a large number of demonstrations and climate strikes led to a rapid rise in environmental awareness in Western Europe. At the same time, the religious composition of Western societies has undergone fundamental changes in terms of both secularization and diversification. Moreover, spirituality no longer counts just as piety or esoterism, but is given a wide variety of meanings through the influence of global cultural exchanges, especially as an individual dimension that finds expression in the fields of art, culture and commercial branding. Hubert Knoblauch speaks of a popularisation of spirituality[1] that also affects the ecological sphere currently. In 2015, a research team I led at the University of Lausanne also began to document the convergence of an “ecologisation of religion” and a “spiritualisation of ecology” in French-speaking Switzerland, as urban environmentalists increasingly referred to “spirituality”.
In numerous parts of Europe, in cities and their surroundings, persons oppose the felling of trees through sit-ins or petitions. Cites are on the one hand going through massive urbanization and densification as the population is rapidly growing, which puts huge economic pressure to increase real estate. Cities are also confronted increasingly to health problems linked to pollution and to heat peaks so that for a dozen of years at least they also promote the planting of trees. Symbolically trees do have a high value in this given context.
Speaker: IRENE BECCI
Scientific coordination: Massimo Leone, Director FBK-ISR
Cycle of seminars: “(Dis-)Enchantment in Religion and Ethics“
The talk will be held in English.
The presentation will be in-person in the FBK Aula Piccola while seats last and online.
Registration by October 13, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. is required in order to arrange the connection.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Fondazione Bruno Kessler _ FBK Aula Piccola, Via Santa Croce, 77, Trento, Italy
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