US anthropologist Naveeda Khan from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore spoke at University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” about the complex interrelationship between religious traditions, climate change and the experience of hunger. In her lecture in English entitled “Ensouling Hunger”, Khan examined this relationship by looking at how the Muslim population along the South Asian river Jamuna in Bangladesh deals with climate-related crises such as hunger. In addition to the political dimensions of famine, the researcher, herself a native of Bangladesh, also emphasized the metaphysical and spiritual meaning of the everyday use of food and the conscious renunciation of food, such as that which characterizes fasting.

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