Assistant Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China.
Associate Professor, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China.
Disasters. 2023 Jul;47(3):788-805. doi: 10.1111/disa.12563. Epub 2023 Feb 6.
The role of religious belief in disasters has attracted increased scholarly interest in recent years. This paper shows that religious belief can generate disaster resilience through the pathways of disaster framing, mental health, and disaster behaviours. Drawing on interviews conducted with Tibetan Buddhist believers in the Yushu earthquake area of China, this study indicates that notions of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as religious practices, helped locals to make sense of the 2010 event, obtain spiritual support in its aftermath, foster a sense of community, and develop a prosocial post-earthquake environment. These religious notions and practices also assisted in sustaining a faith-based network composed of two kinds of important local social relationships, layperson-layperson and layperson-monk, which increased local disaster resilience at the level of response behaviour. The findings enrich our understanding of the religious source of disaster resilience and yield insights into disaster risk reduction in religious regions, especially where Buddhist belief is prevalent.
近年来，宗教信仰在灾害中的作用引起了学术界越来越多的关注。本文通过灾害框架、心理健康和灾害行为这三个途径表明，宗教信仰可以产生灾害韧性。本研究以中国玉树地震灾区的藏传佛教信徒为访谈对象，研究表明，藏传佛教观念和宗教实践帮助当地人理解了 2010 年的事件，在事件发生后为他们提供了精神支持，培养了社区意识，并形成了有利于灾后重建的环境。这些宗教观念和实践还有助于维持一个由两种重要的当地社会关系（俗人与俗人、俗人与僧侣）组成的基于信仰的网络，从而增加了当地在应对行为层面的灾害韧性。研究结果丰富了我们对灾害韧性的宗教根源的理解，并为宗教地区的灾害风险减少提供了启示，尤其是在佛教信仰盛行的地区。
