The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship

The present paper discusses how religious, theistic stewardship-the belief that humans have a responsibility to take care of the world that God created and has entrusted to humankind-promotes pro-environmental support among religious individuals. Reviewing the existing literature, we describe how re...

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Main Authors: EOM, Kimin, NG, Shu Tian
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-50992023-12-05T02:12:03Z The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship EOM, Kimin NG, Shu Tian The present paper discusses how religious, theistic stewardship-the belief that humans have a responsibility to take care of the world that God created and has entrusted to humankind-promotes pro-environmental support among religious individuals. Reviewing the existing literature, we describe how religious stewardship belief may shape cognitions and emotions regarding various environmentally relevant objects (i.e., natural environment, environmental problems, and pro-environmental behaviors) and how these cognitions and emotions lead to motivation to engage in pro-environmental action. We also discuss religious beliefs that may suppress the positive effects of stewardship belief as well as key factors that may moderate the effects of stewardship belief. Last, we discuss potential ways of leveraging religious stewardship in messaging and communications for behavioral change toward sustainability. Although the existing evidence on whether religion helps or hinders environmental protection is mixed, our review suggests that stewardship belief clearly provides great potential for environmental support among religious communities. 2023-07-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3841 info:doi/10.1111/tops.12641 Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Emotion Pro-environmental behavior Religion Stewardship Sustainability Environmental Sciences Religion Social Psychology
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Emotion
Pro-environmental behavior
Religion
Stewardship
Sustainability
Environmental Sciences
Religion
Social Psychology
spellingShingle Emotion
Pro-environmental behavior
Religion
Stewardship
Sustainability
Environmental Sciences
Religion
Social Psychology
EOM, Kimin
NG, Shu Tian
The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
description The present paper discusses how religious, theistic stewardship-the belief that humans have a responsibility to take care of the world that God created and has entrusted to humankind-promotes pro-environmental support among religious individuals. Reviewing the existing literature, we describe how religious stewardship belief may shape cognitions and emotions regarding various environmentally relevant objects (i.e., natural environment, environmental problems, and pro-environmental behaviors) and how these cognitions and emotions lead to motivation to engage in pro-environmental action. We also discuss religious beliefs that may suppress the positive effects of stewardship belief as well as key factors that may moderate the effects of stewardship belief. Last, we discuss potential ways of leveraging religious stewardship in messaging and communications for behavioral change toward sustainability. Although the existing evidence on whether religion helps or hinders environmental protection is mixed, our review suggests that stewardship belief clearly provides great potential for environmental support among religious communities.
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author EOM, Kimin
NG, Shu Tian
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NG, Shu Tian
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title The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
title_short The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
title_full The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
title_fullStr The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
title_full_unstemmed The Potential of Religion for Promoting Sustainability: The Role of Stewardship
title_sort potential of religion for promoting sustainability: the role of stewardship
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3841
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