Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources
Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources
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DOI：
10.1080/13549839.2018.1449822
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Hague, Alice
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作者：
Bomberg, Elizabeth;Hague, Alice
本文试图解释教会会众如何以及为什么在环境问题上动员起来，以及这种动员的独特之处。在资源动员理论（RMT）的基础上，我们发展了“精神资源”的概念，以帮助解释精神身份，价值观，符号和叙事的集合如何促进对环境问题的独特集体行动。我们的分析借鉴了苏格兰气候活跃群体的深入案例研究的数据。它包括网站内容分析、新闻报道以及对参与气候活动的选定教会和世俗团体的人种学观察。我们发现教会团体确实享有一套独特的资源--包括由神学和教义塑造的传统、仪式和象征--这些资源并没有完全被气候动员的其他解释所捕捉。虽然这些精神资源并不直接转化为具体的环境或气候行动，但它们可以，特别是在与其他资源相结合时，导致在个人和社区一级有明确动机和明确实践的环境活动。
This article seeks to explain how and why church congregations mobilise on environmental issues and what - if anything - is distinctive about that mobilisation. Building on and adapting Resource Mobilisation Theory (RMT), we develop the idea of "spiritual resources" to help explain how a collection of spiritual identities, values, symbols and narratives can facilitate distinctive collective action on environmental issues. Our analysis draws on data derived from an in-depth case study of climate active groups in Scotland. It includes content analysis of websites, news stories as well as ethnographic observation of selected church and secular groups engaged in climate activity. We find church groups do enjoy a distinct set of resources - comprising tradition, rituals and symbols shaped by theology and doctrine - which are not wholly captured by other explanations of climate mobilisation. While these spiritual resources do not directly translate into specific environmental or climate action they can, especially when combined with other resources, lead to environmental activities distinctly motivated, and distinctly practised at the individual and community level.