Dr Rosemary is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society, and Convener of the Religion, Culture and Society Research Focus Area.
She is a sociologist of religion who researches the engagement of religious actors in grassroots politics, with a strong expertise in environmental politics. She is a world-leading expert on Islamic environmentalism. Her research grapples with the myriad ways religion motivates and structures political action, the relationship between religious and political practice, and how the engagement of religious people and organizations in grassroots politics transforms both those spaces – and religious communities themselves.
In this episode we discuss Islamic Environmental Activism in different parts of the world, what made Rosemary want to research Muslims, and how secular nations account for the views of it's religious citizens.
Dr Rosemary Hancock: Faith & Environmentalism in a Secular World