The influence of religion on beliefs of stewardship, dominionship and controlling god towards pro-environmental support

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2023.2177317
Sophayo Khamrang Varah, Eknee Khongrei, Mirinchonme Mahongnao, Franky Varah
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ABSTRACT Studies on the relationship between religious activity and environmental issues are becoming increasingly significant in view of the enormous environmental difficulties confronting modern civilisation. The study of the relationship between religion and nature has produced contradictory results. Some studies found that religion had a significant influence on people’s attitude toward nature, whereas others found the opposite. The goal of this study is to see how the predictor (stewardship, dominion, and belief in a controlling God) mediated the link between religiosity and pro-environmental support. We conducted an online experiment (N = 280) on the Tangkhul Naga in Northeast India. The findings show that stewardship has a direct and substantial association with religiosity, but dominionship and belief in a controlling God do not. Tangkhul Nagas indicate that people or communities with stewardship tendencies are more inclined to support environmental causes. This paper contends that a strong inclination of stewardship and pro-environmental activism stems from their ancestor’s belief system and their way of life in which they embraced animism and worshipped nature prior to accepting Christianity, as evident from literature and folklores. This paper aims to ascertain that such a belief system is critical at a time when global societies are attempting to minimise the present environmental crisis.
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宗教对管理、支配和控制神的信仰对亲环境支持的影响
鉴于现代文明面临的巨大环境困难,对宗教活动与环境问题之间关系的研究变得越来越重要。对宗教与自然关系的研究产生了矛盾的结果。一些研究发现,宗教对人们对待自然的态度有重大影响,而另一些研究则发现恰恰相反。这项研究的目的是观察预测因素(管理、统治和对控制上帝的信仰)如何介导宗教信仰和环保支持之间的联系。我们进行了一个在线实验(N = 280)。研究结果表明,管理与宗教信仰有着直接而实质的联系,但支配地位和对控制上帝的信仰却没有。Tangkhul Nagas表明,有管理倾向的人或社区更倾向于支持环境事业。本文认为,强烈的管理和环保行动主义倾向源于他们祖先的信仰体系和生活方式,在接受基督教之前,他们信奉万物有灵论,崇拜自然,这一点从文学和民间传说中可以明显看出。本文旨在确定,在全球社会试图将当前的环境危机降至最低的时候,这种信念体系至关重要。
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