Dark green humility: religious, psychological, and affective attributes of proenvironmental behaviors

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 41-56 - 2019
Bron Taylor1,2, Jen Wright3,4, Todd LeVasseur5
1Department of Religion to College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Florida, USA
2Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
3Department of Psychology, College of Charleston, Charleston, USA
4Environmental and Sustainability Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, USA
5Sustainability Literacy Institute, College of Charleston, Charleston, USA

Tóm tắt

Through a novel survey instrument, we examined traits and characteristics that various scholars and observers have averred promote or hinder proenvironmental behaviors. We found that those who hold anthropocentric and monotheistic religious views, and express low levels of environmental, religious, and cosmic humility, are less likely to engage in proenvironmental behaviors than those who maintain views, or express affinity with affective traits, values, and spiritual understandings, that are ecocentric, Organicist/Gaian, pantheistic, animistic, and that in general reflect humility about the human place in the world.

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