ABSTRACT
Existing studies in Singapore covered how religion influences environmental attitudes, without an emphasis on any particular faith. This chapter aims to fill a gap in the literature by examining environmental action by Protestant Christians in Singapore. The Resource Mobilisation Theory (RMT) is used to explain how Protestants utilise material, human, spiritual, and organisational resources to mobilise environmental action. RMT looks at why groups mobilise around a problem or issue, and how a group galvanises to pursue their collective goals. Research findings also show that Singapore’s Creation Care movement is nascent with sporadic environmental initiatives by Protestant churches and was first initiated by parachurches—Christian faith-based organisations that carry out their mission independent of church oversight. However, these parachurches are informal groups without any full-time ministry staff running Creation Care initiatives.
