Evangelical Environmentalists? Evidence from Brazil.
While scholarship on the relationship between religions and environmental attitudes has been inconclusive, evangelical Protestants present an exception: they consistently report less environmental concern than other groups. However, prior studies have largely been conducted in the United States. Fol...
| Published in: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 341 - 360 |
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