Discussing Apocalypse: Faith, Peace, and the Language of Climate Change

About Discussing Apocalypse: Faith, Peace, and the Language of Climate Change

This four-part podcast series explores shifts in global perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis. Underpinned by the academic research of the LSE Religion and Global Society unit, this series shows how religious imaginaries and faith leaders are playing an increasingly central role in global and local responses to a pressing global challenge. Through discussions with faith leaders, international experts, and grassroots activists, the series introduces new ways of imagining our response to the environmental crisis and explores how faith narratives impacts policymaking spaces.

Publisher

LSE Religion and Global Society

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2025

Latest episode

3 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jun 2025

   ​Promoting Inclusion and New Voices​ in the Climate Movement

   Host Kristian Noll interviews Skw’akw’as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore and Shomy Chowdhury, who share personal experiences with climate change and stress the importance of including marginalized communities in climate discussions.

2. 

   30 May 2025

   New Locales and Impacts of Climate Action Within Peace and Security Efforts

   Kristian Noll interviews Iyad Abumoghli, Dicky Sofjan, Martha Jarvis, Maja Groff, and Nushrat Chowdhury about local climate action and how faith communities address climate emergency challenges.

3. 

   20 May 2025

   New Narratives of Climate Resilience

   In the second episode of Discussing Apocalypse, host Kristian Noll speaks with international climate experts about how individuals around the world are making sense of the climate crisis, focusing on the role of faith and religious narratives. Featuring Iyad Abumoghli, Founder and Director of UNEP's Faith for Earth Coalition; Dicky Sofjan, VP of Globethics; Martha Jarvis, Permanent Anglican Representative to the UN; and Maja Groff, Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission. This episode focuses on the ways new faith-rooted narratives about the climate crisis are influencing global policymaking.

4. 

   2 May 2025

   New Research on Climate Discourses

   In this introductory episode, host Kristian Noll speaks with three academics who have been researching the global political narrative surrounding the climate crisis. Through their conversations, we learn about the evolution of a global narrative on the climate, the role of faith and religious discourses in 'new' ways of thinking about environmental catastrophe, and are introduced to the work of the LSE Religion and Global Society unit developing a methodology for engaging religious communities in climate policy discussions.

Who has been a guest on Discussing Apocalypse: Faith, Peace, and the Language of Climate Change

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• Skw’akw’as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore
• Shomy Chowdhury
• Iyad Abumoghli
• Dicky Sofjan
• Martha Jarvis

Podcast Authority Score: 10 / 100

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