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Driving private schools to go "green": The case of Spanish and Italian religious schools
Author(s) -
RobinaRamírez Rafael,
CotanoOlivera Cecilio
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/teth.12547
Subject(s) - mandate , religious education , sustainability , sociology , structural equation modeling , private school , environmental ethics , political science , law , social science , religious studies , pedagogy , psychology , philosophy , mathematics education , ecology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Abstract Religious schools in Spain and Italy have been focused for centuries on spreading the Bible's message among students. In the beginning of the sacred scriptures, there is a mandate to protect nature as God's steward of creation; however, that reality has played a secondary role amongst believers and educational institutions. 180 Spanish and 135 Italian religious schools participated in the study. Through structural equation modeling (SEM‐PLS), hypotheses were defined based on the understanding of sustainability as a moral issue. Results underscored that religious schools should protect nature by combining religion and environmental science.