Exploring the cognitive, moral, emotional, and social roots of sustainability in religious consumer discourses. Implications for environmental education

While existing literature acknowledges both positive and negative links between religion and sustainable consumption, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain underexplored. Based on grounded theory, this research analyses religious consumers discourses and proposes a model centered on the core category of interconnectedness, which reflects a religiously grounded worldview that informs consumption through cognitive, moral, emotional, and social dimensions, motives and mechanisms. Whether through the cognitive awareness of interdependence; the moral imperatives to care for creation; the emotional engagement thought awe, wonder, compassion and guilt and the social bonds they foster within communities to achieve collective actions, all converge to shape a relational mindset to sustainable living. The study offers a theoretical contribution by framing interconnectedness as a construct for understanding religious influence on sustainable lifestyles. It also provides practical implications for environmental education, suggesting that approaches rooted in religious worldviews may strengthen commitment to sustainability through integrated cognitive, moral, emotional, and social pathways.