%0 Journal Article 
%A Orellano, Anabel Rocío
%A Valor Martínez, María del Carmen
%A Chuvieco Salinero, Emilio
%T The influence of religion on sustainable consumption: a systematic review and future research agenda
%D 2020
%@ 2071-1050
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/44791
%X Background: Due to the current environmental crisis, sustainable consumption (SC) behaviour and its drivers has gained significant attention among researchers. One of the potential drivers of SC, religion, have been analysed in the last few years. The study of the relationship
between religion and adoption of SC at the individual level have reached mixed and inconclusive
results. Methods: Following the PRISMA guidelines, a systematic review of articles published
between 1998 and 2019 was conducted using the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Search
terms included sustainable consumption, green consumption, ethical consumption, responsible
consumption, pro-environmental behaviour and religion. Results: This systematic review reveals
that contradictory results are due to methodological and theoretical reasons and provides a unifying
understanding about the influence of religion on SC practices. Results highlight the role of religion as a
distal or background factor of other proximal determinants of environmental behaviour. Conclusions:
This paper contributes to the literature concerning SC by synthesising previous scholarship showing
that religion shapes SC indirectly by affecting attitudes, values, self-efficacy, social norms and identity.
The review concludes with a research agenda to encourage scholars the study of other unexamined
mediating constructs, such as beliefs in after life, cleansing rituals and prayer, moral emotions, moral
identity, the role of virtues and self-restrain.
%K Religion
%K Sustainable consumption
%K Behavioral factors
%K Review
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