Religion and Attitude towards Sustainability

IF 1.4 0 RELIGION
Ulrich Riegel
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Climate change and sustainable lifestyles are discussed intensely in civil society, again. Unlike in the the 1970s and 1980s, however, religious communities seem to play a minor role in this discussion. This raises the question of the importance of religion in regard to an ecological attitude. Based on a sample of N = 4131 (former) church members (age: 14 to 89 years – 47% females – 60% with Bachelor-degree of better), this paper analyzes the effect of centrality of religion (as personal indicator in regard of religion) and membership status (as institutional indicator in regard of religion) on values addressing ecology. The findings indicate that church members and religious individuals show a more positive ecological attitude than individuals that did have disaffiliated from church or are not religious. Highly religious respondents, however, are less concerned with ecology than religious ones. Moreover, the effect of membership status is not significant anymore when socio-demographic variables are added as well as when lifestyle is added. The paper will discuss these findings within the framework of the theoretical distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ style of political participation.
宗教与对可持续性的态度
民间社会再次热烈讨论气候变化和可持续生活方式。然而,与20世纪70年代和80年代不同的是,宗教团体似乎在这场讨论中发挥了次要作用。这就提出了宗教在生态态度方面的重要性问题。基于N=4131名(前)教会成员(年龄:14至89岁,47%为女性,60%为本科以上学历)的样本,本文分析了宗教中心性(作为宗教方面的个人指标)和成员地位(作为宗教领域的制度指标)对生态价值观的影响。研究结果表明,教会成员和宗教人士比脱离教会或不信教的人表现出更积极的生态态度。然而,与宗教受访者相比,高度宗教化的受访者更不关心生态问题。此外,当加入社会人口变量和生活方式时,会员身份的影响不再显著。本文将在“旧”和“新”政治参与风格的理论区别框架内讨论这些发现。
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