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Religious Identity And Its Impact On Beliefs And Behaviors, Kaylise Algrim
Religious Identity And Its Impact On Beliefs And Behaviors, Kaylise Algrim
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
For many years, research into religion and environmentalism focused on affiliation with a religious institution as it correlated with environmental attitudes (Boyd, 1999; Hand & Van Liere, 1984). This perspective did not account for differences in religious attitudes among members of the same religion and also missed the ways religious identity can shape other views. Newer research into religious identity as a factor in environmentalism has highlighted religion as a personal and social construct which can positively influence environmental beliefs (Hedlund de- Witt et al., 2013; Garfield et al., 2014). This study used a psychosocial approach and surveyed 286 undergraduate …