School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.
Top Cogn Sci. 2023 Jul;15(3):480-499. doi: 10.1111/tops.12641. Epub 2023 Feb 13.
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.
本文探讨了宗教、有神论的受托责任——即人类有责任照顾上帝创造并托付给人类的世界——如何促进宗教个体的环保支持。通过回顾现有文献，我们描述了宗教受托责任信念如何塑造对各种与环境相关的对象（即自然环境、环境问题和环保行为）的认知和情感，以及这些认知和情感如何导致参与环保行动的动机。我们还讨论了可能抑制受托责任信念积极影响的宗教信仰，以及可能调节受托责任信念影响的关键因素。最后，我们讨论了在可持续性行为改变的信息传递和沟通中利用宗教受托责任的潜在方法。尽管关于宗教是有助于还是阻碍环境保护的现有证据存在分歧，但我们的综述表明，受托责任信念显然为宗教社区提供了巨大的环保支持潜力。
