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Integrating the Religiosity and Spirituality of Patients within the Electronic Medical Records of an In-Patient Medical System in the Mid-South
Atheism and Unbelief
Towards a psychology and sociology of atheism and non-belief If the world’s estimated 1.1 billion atheists and non-believers were grouped together as their own “religion,” they would be the world’s third-largest, trailing only Christianity and Islam. Any serious psychology or sociology of religion must take into account the beliefs and experiences of non-believers — yet the scientific study of atheism and non-belief has lagged behind the study of religions, with varied forms of non-belief often relegated to being defined by what they aren’t rather than what they are. The John Templeton Foundation enthusiastically supports scientific research that touches on many…
Embedding the Development of Intellectual Character within a University Curriculum
Science of Purpose Funding Initiative
Ancient philosophers such as Aristotle viewed living things as pursuing various ends or goals. Today, our mainstream biological sciences seldom use such concepts in their explanatory theories, though biologists often use descriptive language that imputes purposiveness to living systems and some scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with the neglect of goal-directed processes in an otherwise comprehensive theoretical framework. Life itself seems to make use of a variety of strategies that achieve its purposes, and a number of natural phenomena are puzzlingly difficult to describe or account for without the use of purposive language. Is it time to resuscitate purposiveness in biology?…
Quantum Gravity Frontiers
How Do Brains Represent Beliefs About God?
Are the ways that people think about God different from the ways they think about siblings, celebrities, or superheroes? A three-year study launched in 2019, led by neuroscientists Adam Green of Georgetown University, Jordan Grafman of Northwestern University, and David Kraemer of Dartmouth College, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation, aims to increase our understanding of the ways believers and unbelievers conceptualize God in their everyday thinking using a sophisticated new approach to analyzing neuroimaging data. The study will make use of a new data technique for analyzing brain scans. In past studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),…
In Memoriam – HRH Prince Philip (1921 – 2021)
The John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton Philanthropies mourn the passing of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, a philanthropist and committed public representative of the royal household in thousands of appearances and engagements over decades. He passed away on April 9, 2021 at the age of 99 in Windsor Castle. Prince Philip served as a great friend of the Templeton Prize for nearly 40 years. He presented the first award to Mother Teresa in a ceremony held at London’s historic Guildhall in 1973, and continued to participate in a private ceremony for…
Training Faculty to Tackle the Big Questions of Today and Tomorrow
A new round of fellowships will equip tenured philosophers and theologians to dive deeply into the empirical sciences From the origin of the universe and the emergence of life to the meaning of human existence, certain “Big Questions” are so big that they transcend individual disciplines and beg to be examined from multiple perspectives. In order to help spur more fruitful interdisciplinary engagement, the John Templeton Foundation is offering a new round of $220,000 fellowships to provide recently tenured philosophers and theologians the opportunity to spend up to three academic years in “academic cross-training” in deep engagement with the empirical…
Collaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology
A new project will foster interdisciplinary work — informed by both science and theology — on what it means to be human Human flourishing and freedom are topics that have long been considered by theologians and humanities scholars, but recent work in the life and social sciences—on subjects ranging from how brains make decisions to how individuals develop virtues — is presenting some of those age-old topics in a new light. A new three-year, $3.9 million research project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and led by theologians Jesse Couenhoven at Villanova University, and Gerald McKenny and Neil Arner at…
New Funding Competition in Christian Theology: Up to $8M for Cross-Training in Psychology
The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce a new funding competition in the Philosophy & Theology department, with a total of up to approximately $8 million available over five years for projects. The Psychological Science Cross-Training for Christian Theology Funding Competition invites Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) submissions for proposals aimed at giving theologians, philosophers of religion, and scholars in religious studies who work in Christian theology (broadly construed) the opportunity to cross-train in psychological sciences. In this call, these sciences are understood to include cognitive, social, personality, moral, developmental, evolutionary, and cultural psychology; cognitive anthropology; behavioral economics; cognitive science; and…
