Religion and Ethics in the Wake of the Anthropocene

In this round-table six scholars, who (broadly speaking, come from the field of religion and nature/ecology) will critically examine the concept of the Anthropocene. This concept has shaped the way we think about the planetary future in some helpful but also very problematic ways. We will look at critiques of the anthropocene from post-humanist and planetary perspectives, and from ideas emerging out of microbiology and microanimality. In addition we will discuss links between the idea of the Anthropocene and religious nationalism, "sophiology," and the construction of the idea of "religion" itself.  Is the anthropocene something which we need to reject or keep?  Or does it really matter for ethics in the end?