Tending our Patch of Creation
Engaging Christians in Environmental Stewardship through Sense of Place
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i3.265Keywords:
sense of place, place meaning, conservation behavior, religion, Christianity, framing, outreach programsAbstract
Based on existing research about the relationship between belief systems and message framing, as well as between ‘sense of place’ and conservation behavior, we evaluated a conservation outreach program targeted at a religious audience, which employs sense of place as a message frame. We interviewed clergy and laypeople from four Lutheran churches about their experience of participating in the program. We investigated how they understood their churches as place and what salient place meanings emerged therefrom, as well as what effects the sense-of-place frame had on participants’ perspectives and behavior regarding environmental stewardship. Participants’ place experiences included physical, social, and personal components. While less than half adopted new conservation behaviors, a strong majority experienced an expanded awareness of place and several felt more empowered to care for the Earth. Findings suggest that employing the sense-of-place framework may be useful in outreach efforts aimed at motivating Christians to adopt and maintain conservation behavior.
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———. 2003. ‘Sense of Place and Forest Science: Toward a Program of Quantitative Research’, Forest Science 49: 822-29.
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Burn, S.M. 1991. ‘Social Psychology and the Stimulation of Recycling Behaviors: The Block Leader Approach’, Journal of Applied Social Psychology 21: 611-29.
Cantrill, J.G. 1998. ‘The Environmental Self and a Sense of Place: Communication Foundations for Regional Ecosystem Management’, Journal of Applied Communication Research 26: 301-18. Doi: 10.1080/00909889809365509.
Cassino, D., and M. Lodge. 2007. ‘The Primacy of Affect in Political Evaluations’, in W.R Neuman, G.E. Marcus, A.N. Crigler, and M. Mackuen (eds.), The Affect Effect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press): 101-23.
Corbett, J.B. 2006. Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (Washington, DC: Island Press).
Costanzo, M., D. Archer, E. Aronson, and T. Pettigrew. 1986. ‘Energy Conservation Behavior: The Dif_cult Path from Information to Action’, American Psychologist 41: 521-28. Doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.41.5.521.
Creswell, J.W. 2007. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2nd edn).
Dalrymple, K.E., B.R. Shaw, and D. Brossard. In press. ‘Following The Leader: Using Opinion Leaders in Environmental Strategic Communication’, Society and Natural Resources.
DeWitt, C.B. 2006. ‘The Scientist and the Shepherd: The Emergence of Evangelical Environmentalism’, in R. Gottlieb (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology (New York: Oxford University Press): 568-87. Doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195178722.003.0025.
Dunwoody, S. 2006. ‘The Challenge of Trying to Make a Difference Using Media Messages’, in S. Moser and L. Dilling (eds.), Creating a Climate for Change (New York: Cambridge University Press): 89-104.
Emerson, R.M., R.I. Fretz, and L.L. Shaw. 1995. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226206851.001.0001.
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Farnum, J., T. Hall, and L.E. Kruger. 2005. Sense of Place in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism: An Evaluation and Assessment of Research Findings (Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Paci_c Northwest Research Station).
Flyvbjerg, B. 2006. ‘Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research’, Qualitative Inquiry 12: 219-45. Doi: 10.1177/1077800405284363.
Greider, T., and L. Garkovich. 1994. ‘Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment’, Rural Sociology 59.1: 1-24. Doi: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00519.x.
Grunig, J.E. 1989. ‘A Situational Theory of Environmental Issues, Publics, and Activists’, in L.A. Grunig (ed.), Environmental Activism Revisited: The Changing Nature of Communication through Organizational Public Relations, Special Interest Groups and the Mass Media (Troy, OH: North American Association for Environmental Education): 50-82.
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———. 2010. ‘Pro-environmental Behaviours and Park Visitors: The Effect of Place Attachment’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 30: 409-21. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.04.006.
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Kaltenborn, B.P., 1998. ‘Effects of Sense of Place on Responses to Environmental Impacts: A Study among Residents in Svalbard in the Norwegian High Arctic’, Applied Geography 18.2: 169-89. Doi: 10.1016/S0143-6228(98)00002-2.
Katz, E. 1957. ‘The Two-Step Flow of Communication: An Up-to-Date Report on a Hypothesis’, Public Opinion Quarterly 21: 61-78. Doi: 10.1086/266687.
Kruger, L.E., T.T. Hall, and M.C. Stiefel (eds.). 2008. Understanding Concepts of Place in Recreation Research and Management (Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Paci_c Northwest Research Station).
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Lagerquist, L.D. 2004. ‘The Lutheran Difference: What More Than Nice?’, in P. Barlow and M. Silk (eds.), Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America’s Common Denominator? (Walnut Creek, CA: Altmira Press): 83-108.
Lehman, P.K., and E.S. Geller. 2004. ‘Behavior Analysis and Environmental Protection: Accomplishments and Potential for More’, Behavior and Social Issues 13: 13-32. Doi: 10.5210/bsi.v13i1.33.
Lieserowitz, A., E. Maibach, and C. Roser-Renouf. 2009. Climate Change in the American Mind. Online: http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/images/_les/Climate_Change_in_the_American_Mind.pdf.
Low, S.M. 1992. ‘Symbolic Ties that Bind: Place Attachment in the Plaza’, in Low and Altman 1992: 165-85.
Low, S.M., and I. Altman. 1992. ‘Place Attachment: A Conceptual Inquiry’, in Low and Altman 1992: 1-12.
Low, S.M. and I. Altman (eds.). 1992. Place Attachment (New York: Plenum Press).
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. 2010. Together with All Creatures: Caring for God’s Living Earth. Online: http://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=341.
Manzo, L.C., and D.D. Perkins. 2006. ‘Finding Common Grounds: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning’, Journal of Planning Literature 20: 335-50. Doi: 10.1177/0885412205286160.
Moseley, L., and A.J. Joyner. 2008. Faith in Action: Communities of Faith Bring Hope for the Planet. Online: http://www.sierraclub.org/ej/downloads/faithinactionreport2008.pdf.
Nisbet, M.C., and J.E. Kotcher. 2009. ‘A Two-Step Flow of In_uence? Opinion-Leader Campaigns on Climate Change’, Science Communication 30: 328-54. Doi: 10.1177/1075547008328797.
Nisbet, M.C., and C. Mooney. 2007. ‘Framing Science’, Science 316: 56. Doi: 10.1126/science.1142030.
Ortberg, J.C., R.L. Gorsuch, and G.J. Kim. 2001. ‘Changing Attitude and Moral Obligation: Their Independent Effects on Behavior’, Journal for the Scienti_c Study of Religion 40: 489-96. Doi: 10.1111/0021-8294.00072.
Petty, R.E., P. Briñol, and J.R. Priester. 2009. ‘Mass Media Attitude Change: Implications of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion’, in Bryant and Oliver 2009: 125-64.
Posas, P.J. 2007. ‘Roles of Religion and Ethics in Addressing Climate Change’, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 2007: 31-49.
Relph, E.C. 1976. Place and Placelessness (London: Pion).
Rioux, L. 2011. ‘Promoting Pro-environmental Behaviour: Collection of Used Batteries by Secondary School Pupils’, Environmental Education Research 17: 353-73. Doi: 10.1080/13504622.2010.543949.
Rogers, E.M. 2003. Diffusion of Innovations (New York: Free Press).
Ryan, R.L. 2005. ‘Exploring the Effects of Environmental Experience on Attachment to Urban Natural Areas’, Environment and Behavior 37: 3-42. Doi: 10.1177/0013916504264147.
Scheufele, D.A. 1999. ‘Framing as a Theory of Media Effects’, Journal of Communication 49: 103-22. Doi: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02784.x.
Scheufele, D.A., and S. Iyengar. In press. ‘The State of Framing Research: A Call for New Directions’, in K. Kenski and J.H. Jamieson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Communication Theories (New York: Oxford University Press).
Scheufele, D.A., and D. Tewksbury. 2007. ‘Framing, Agenda Setting and Priming: The Evolution of Three Media Effects Models’, Journal of Communication 57: 9-20.
Shellenberger, M., and T. Nordhaus. 2004. The Death of Environmentalism (Oakland, CA: Breathrough Institute and Evans/McDonough).
Sherkat, D.E., and C.G. Ellison. 2007. ‘Structuring the Religion–Environment Connection: Identifying Religious In_uences on Environmental Concern and Activism’, Journal for the Scienti_c Study of Religion 46: 71-85. Doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00341.x.
Sixsmith, J. 1986. ‘The Meaning of Home: An Exploratory Study of Environmental Experience’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 6: 281-98. Doi: 10.1016/S0272-4944(86)80002-0.
Smith, A.M., and S. Pulver. 2009. ‘Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice: Religious Environmental Organizations in the United States’, Worldviews 13: 145-79. Doi: 10.1163/156853509X438580.
Spartz, J.T., and B.R. Shaw. 2011. ‘Place Meanings Surrounding an Urban Natural Area: A Qualitative Inquiry’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 31: 344-52. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.04.002.
Stedman, R.C. 2002. ‘Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior from Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude and Identity’, Environment and Behavior 34: 561-81. Doi: 10.1177/0013916502034005001.
———. 2003. ‘Sense of Place and Forest Science: Toward a Program of Quantitative Research’, Forest Science 49: 822-29.
———. 2008. ‘What Do We “Mean” by Place Meanings: Implications of Place Meanings for Managers and Practitioners’, in Kruger, Hall, and Stiefel 2008: 61-81.
Steg, L., and C. Vlek. 2009. ‘Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 29: 309-17. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.10.004.
Stewart, W. 2008. ‘Place Meanings in Stories of Lived Experience’, in Kruger, Hall, and Stiefel 2008: 83-108.
Taylor, B. 2011. ‘Editor’s Introduction: Toward a Robust Scienti_c Investigation of the “Religion” Variable in the Quest for Sustainability’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 5: 253-62.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. 2008. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Diverse and Dynamic. Online: http://religions.pewforum.org/.
Tuan, Y. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Tversky, A., and D. Kahneman. 1981. ‘The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice’, Science 211: 253-58. Doi: 10.1126/science.7455683.
Vaske, J.J., and K.C. Kobrin. 2001. ‘Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior’, Journal of Environmental Education 32: 16-21. Doi:10.1080/00958960109598658.
Vorkinn, M., and H. Riese. 2001. ‘Environmental Concern in a Local Context: The Signi_cance of Place Attachment’, Environment and Behavior 33: 249-63. Doi: 10.1177/00139160121972972.
Walker, G.J., and R. Chapman. 2003. ‘Thinking Like a Park: The Effects of Sense of Place, Perspective-taking, and Empathy on Pro-environmental Intentions’, Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 21.4: 71-86.
Webb, T.L., and P. Sheeran. 2006. ‘Does Changing Behavioral Intentions Engender Behavior Change? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence’, Psychological Bulletin 132: 249-68. Doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.132.2.249.
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Seifert, J. M., & Shaw, B. R. (2013). Tending our Patch of Creation: Engaging Christians in Environmental Stewardship through Sense of Place. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 7(3), 265-288. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i3.265
