ABSTRACT

This chapter explores how religion, scientificity, and culture are changing in the context of climatic and environmental change. For the academic disciplines, the challenge is to further explore how religion functions within the various ecological and sociocultural processes of dangerous environmental change. The rapidly increasing migrations of people and environments present one central challenge: they bring about gigantic resettlements and the redevelopment of many landscapes and cities within the creation. The statement that the landscape—and the human being within it—is breathing despair and hope makes sense for both environmental sciences and faith communities. Therefore, in the context of environmental change, it becomes more urgent to reflect on lived religion as the skill of making oneself at home. In the context of climate-related migrations, whether one is able to create a home in a strange, new place might decide their fate as well as the capacity for social and ecological peace.