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Faith, Politics, and Intellectual Humility
A public symposium on the prospects for civil discussion In the age of the internet comment, it gets harder and harder to imagine meaningful dialogue between people who disagree about topics as deeply held and divisive as faith and politics. On April 25 in Hartford, Connecticut a trio of speakers with divergent backgrounds but a common interest in revitalizing civic discourse will make the case for — and chart paths towards — just such conversations. At the event titled “Talking About Faith and Politics: Navigating Our Differences with Conviction and Humility," former presidential advisor David Gergen, interfaith youth activist Eboo…
Upcoming OFI Deadline August 16, 2019
Please note: The information in this article reflects our strategic priorities at the time of writing and may change over time. To confirm our current funding interests, please view our Funding Areas. The deadline for submitting Online Funding Inquiries (OFIs) is coming up on August 16, 2019. This follows the most recent round of funding, which saw the approval of $85 million in projects in June 2019. If you are interested in applying for funding from the John Templeton Foundation, please be sure to review our Funding Areas and Strategic Priorities. You may also visit our Grant Database to…
The Neuroscience of Self-Determination
An ambitious new project aims to expand the scientific understanding of human autonomy Humans are capable of a level of autonomy — defined as self-determined, flexible, and rational behavior — that leaves other animals (not to mention our most advanced computers) far behind. A new three-year, $10 million project led by psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists working out of multiple labs at Princeton University will investigate questions relating to humans’ unique autonomous abilities that could have ramifications in fields ranging from computer chip design to philosophy. Nearly $5 million of the project funding will be provided by the John Templeton…
Monthly Grant Report – February 2020
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Modeling Religious Change Old Dominion University Research Foundation Saikou Diallo; Wesley Wildman $3,998,981 Advancing Interprofessional Spiritual Care in Clinical Settings George Washington University Christina Puchalski; George Fitchett $233,687 Purpose, Legacy, and Love: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations Civic Ventures Marc Freedman; Eunice Lin Nichols $4,500,000 Natural Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Visual Signs as Cognitive Tools: Phylogeny and Ontogeny Leiden University Larissa Mendoza Straffon $205,957 Planning Grant for ‘Supporting Structures: Innovative Partnerships to Develop the Future of Bench Science at Christian Liberal…
A Browsable, Theological Treasure-Chest
The new St. Andrews Encyclopædia of Theology hopes to make complex theological topics accessible for people of all backgrounds Over the coming few years, scholars, religious leaders and interested lay people will have a new source for overviews of theological topics — a long-form, open-access, peer-reviewed and regularly updated online compendium, the St. Andrews Encyclopædia of Theology. The project, based at Scotland’s oldest and most prestigious university and initially funded with a four-and-a-half-year, £3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, will offer rigorous yet accessible articles on key theological topics, beginning with Christianity, Judaism and Islam and eventually expanding…
How to Develop a Belief Network
Studying the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior. Across cultures and throughout history, religion has always played a central role in what it means to be human, but psychologists have devoted relatively little attention to how children come to believe or disbelieve in supernatural beings. Is a predisposition toward such beliefs universally “hard-wired,” or are religious beliefs primarily learned through cultural exposure? This year, psychologists Rebekah Richert of University of California Riverside and Kathleen Corriveau of Boston University are launching an ambitious five-year project to begin addressing that gap, supported by a $9.9 million grant from the John…
Monthly Grant Report – March 2019
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Development of a scientific classification (taxonomy) of religious practices in health to rigourise the design and evaluation of interventions Coventry University Deborah Lycett; Riya Patel $232,181 Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World University of British Columbia Azim Shariff; Will Gervais $139,697 Characterizing and Predicting Variation in Representations of Gods across Culture and History The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kurt Gray; Joshua Jackson $234,398 The Intellectual Humility of Psychological Scientists Before and After the Credibility Revolution University of California, Davis Simine Vazire; Alexa…
The Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave One Open Access of Research Data with the Center for Open Science
Researchers can now access the wave one dataset from the Global Flourishing Study, a five-year longitudinal study of 200,000 individuals in over 20 countries. Charlottesville, VA (February 13 , 2024) – The wave one dataset from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) initiative is now available to researchers. The GFS, a partnership among Gallup, Center for Open Science (COS), and researchers at Baylor University and Harvard University is a $43.4 million, five-year study of more than 200,000 individuals in over 20 countries. The GFS data will become a resource for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and educators worldwide. Data can be accessed through…
How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing?
New research to evaluate long-term links between spiritual practice and physical, mental and social well-being A new set of studies based at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health will examine the ways that individual religious participation can contribute to various aspects of human flourishing over the long term. The three-year project, made possible by a $1.23 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, will offer an unprecedented examination of the potential effects of religion on happiness, life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, character, and social relationships. The studies will be led by Tyler VanderWeele, an epidemiologist who is co-director of…
Integrating the Religiosity and Spirituality of Patients within the Electronic Medical Records of an In-Patient Medical System in the Mid-South
