Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion

Volume

11

Pages

1-21

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the causal link between membership in environmental groups and active participation and membership in religious groups. We use a club-based model and employ OLS and spatial econometrics with controls to test for whether membership and participation in a religious group is a substitute or complement for membership in environmental groups. Instrumental variables estimation was used as a robustness check. We found that religious participation and religious membership in evangelical groups are a substitute for environmental membership. Much of the work on environmental concerns has focused on answers to survey questions, not on membership. We used a dataset of environmental membership at the county level to perform our analysis. We further add quantitative evidence to the discussion by some researchers on the link between religion and environmentalism. In this respect, our work aims to investigate further the causal links between religion and environmentalism.

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Original Publication Citation

Bose, F., & Komarek, T. (2015). Are religion and environmentalism complements or substitutes?: A club- based approach. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 11, 1-21.

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