Purpose – This study aims to understand the complex relationship between religiosity and citizenshipbehaviour by examining the role of materialism attitude and empathy.Design/methodology/approach – This study developed a structural equation model with somemeasures taken from the previous literature. This study conducted a survey of young people in Indonesiacontext and used partial least square to test the proposed hypothesis.Findings – The empirical results indicate the mechanism from religiosity to citizenship behaviour involvesempathy. However, under high materialism attitude, an increasing level of religiosity will have a lower impacton citizenship than the individual under low materialism attitude.Originality/value – This study extends to the discussion on the complicated relationship betweenreligiosity and citizenship behaviour by introducing the moderating effect of materialism attitude and themediating effect of empathy.