大多数美国基督教宗教领袖默默地相信气候变化,并告知他们的会众可以帮助开放对话
Stylianos Syropoulos1, Gregg Sparkman2
1School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281.
概括
大多数美国宗教领袖相信人类造成的气候变化,但许多人不讨论它. 教育会众有关领导人的信仰增加了气候行动的支持,并使其与宗教价值观保持一致.
科学领域:
- 环境社会科学 环境社会科学
- 关于气候变化的沟通
- 宗教研究是宗教研究.
背景情况:
- 宗教领袖显著影响会众的态度和信仰.
- 了解宗教领导和气候变化的交叉关系对于有效的气候行动至关重要.
- 之前的研究表明,公众对气候变化的看法与宗教领袖对气候变化的看法之间的差距很大.
研究的目的:
- 评估美国宗教领袖对人为气候变化的信仰程度.
- 检查宗教领袖与会众关于气候变化的沟通模式.
- 调查宗教领袖所感知的信仰对会众气候变化参与和价值观的影响.
主要方法:
- 美国宗教领袖 (N=1,600) 和美国基督徒 (N=987) 的全国代表性调查.
- 一个实验性干预 (N=959) 涉及基督徒参与者来测试信息对感知领导者的信仰的影响.
- 分析信仰的普遍性,讨论的频率,以及参与气候相关行动的意愿.
主要成果:
- 近90%的宗教领袖相信人类造成的气候变化,60%的人认为人类发挥了主要作用.
- 大约一半的领导人从未讨论过气候变化问题,只有四分之一的人这样做超过两次.
- 基督徒大大低估了他们的领导人对气候变化的信仰;纠正这种误解增加了对气候行动的支持,并使其与宗教价值观保持一致.
结论:
- 大多数宗教领袖都承认人类造成的气候变化,但教会内部的沟通是有限的.
- 通过信息提供,会众对宗教领袖的气候信仰的误解可以得到纠正.
- 将气候行动与宗教价值观和感知到的教会规范相协调,可以增强参与和行为意图.
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