Religious Belief, Disaster Awareness, and Disaster Response: Findings and Implication For Disaster Risk Reduction

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10.2991/sschd-17.2017.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Religious Belief, Disaster Awareness, Public Disaster Response, Disaster Risk Reduction

Abstract

Through reviewing the literature about religion belief and natural disaster, this paper argues that religious belief is an important contextual and identity factor in how religious persons understand, interpret, and respond to natural disasters. Religious belief can impact the public's disaster response in both constructive and harmful ways. Based on these findings summarized and synthesized in this study, the implication for disaster risk reduction in religious communities is also discussed.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Sun
AU  - Yan Deng
AU  - Wen-Hua Qi
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Religious Belief, Disaster Awareness, and Disaster Response: Findings and Implication For Disaster Risk Reduction
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 126
EP  - 129
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-17.2017.26
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-17.2017.26
ID  - Sun2017/09
ER  -