The presentation by Milan Fujda elaborates on thetraditional functionalist view that religion and magicemerge when certainty and technical solutions fail. After showing ethnographically how ordinary anexperience of uncertainty and lack of agency is, heproceeds towards radical uncertainties as the keycharacteristic of global society in the Anthropocene. He inverts the functionalist intuition to point out thatit is more appropriate to conceive religious studiesas the studies of handling uncertainties instead ofpresuming that religion and magic arise in uncertain undertakings.
Religionswissenschaftliches Institut