RT Article
T1 The influence of religion on beliefs of stewardship, dominionship and controlling god towards pro-environmental support
JF Culture and religion
VO 22
IS 1
SP 84
OP 101
A1 Khamrang Varah, Sophayo
A1 Khongrei, Eknee
A1 Mahongnao, Mirinchonme
A1 Varah, Franky
A2 Khongrei, Eknee
A2 Mahongnao, Mirinchonme
A2 Varah, Franky
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1852841249
AB 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.
K1 Tangkhul Naga
K1 pro-environmental support
K1 belief in a controlling god
K1 dominionship
K1 Stewardship
K1 Religiosity
DO 10.1080/14755610.2023.2177317