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Monthly Grant Report – July 2019
Recently Approved Grants Character Virtue Development Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount #CultivatingCharacter: A Global Movement to Cultivate Character both Online and Off Through Living 24/6 Let it Ripple, Inc Tiffany Shlain $350,000 Exemplar Interventions to Develop Character Wake Forest University Eranda Jayawickreme, Michael Lamb $1,686,200 Identifying Metrics of Character Development in Adults: Insights from shared life in L’Arche L'Arche USA Tina Bovermann, Brenna Case $220,000 Individual differences and children’s motivations for forgiveness Trustees of Boston University Peter Blake $233,917 Innovative Videos for the Greater Good Regents of the University of California at Berkeley Jason Marsh $234,800 Human…
Monthly Grant Report – October 2019
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Religion as a Source of Social and Moral Development: Evidence from the Pentecostal Revolution in Africa London School of Economics and Political Science Nathan Nunn, Jonathan Weigel $233,984 Religion and Social Change over Two Centuries: Mapping the Activities of the Catholic Church from Documents in the Vatican Secret Archive Baylor University Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, Robert Woodberry $231,955 What shall we call God? An investigation of the role of metaphor in religious cognition. University of Houston Adam Fetterman, Brian Meier $135,705 The Scientific Study of Religious Cognition in…
Monthly Grant Report – February 2019
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount What is Religious Experience? Validating and Testing the Inventory of Non-Ordinary Experiences University of California Santa Barbara Ann Taves; Michael Barlev $234,521 Using Self-Reported Religiosity/Spirituality to Predict Mental Health Outcomes and Biological Correlates Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. Myrna Weissman; Connie Svob $234,302 Project Amazing Grace Phase 2: Making Sense of Grace Biola University Peter Hill $234,779 Philosophy & Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount When and Why We Explain: Need for Explanation and Tolerance for Mystery in Science and Religion The Trustees of…
What Counts As Religious Experience?
A new survey framework aims to give researchers better tools to compare extraordinary human experiences. What constitutes a religious experience? It depends, of course, on who you ask. Even among academics who study religion and psychology, whether an experience is regarded as religious rather than simply unusual depends on the expectations of both the one who asks and the one who answers — one person’s mystical trance may be another person’s psychotic episode. Over the past several years, religious studies professor Ann Taves of the University of California, Santa Barbara, psychologist Michael Barlev, and ethnographer Michael Kinsella have developed a…
India’s Patchwork Pluralism
A groundbreaking nationwide survey explores what Indians believe about their own and their fellow citizens’ religious faiths The largest-ever study of attitudes about religion and civic life in India has revealed new insights into how the world’s second most-populous nation has developed its own distinct vision of pluralism as a patchwork of separate but mutually influential religious communities — spurring new conversations within India about the nature of identity, tolerance, and politics in the world’s largest democracy. This paradox — of tolerance and segregation — is at the heart of the groundbreaking study, conducted by the Pew Research Center and…
Monthly Grant Report – March 2020
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Developing Belief: The Development and Diversity of Religious Cognition and Behavior: Phase 1 University of California, Riverside Rebekah Richert; Kathleen Corriveau $9,866,732 Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project Phase VI Pew Charitable Trusts Alan Cooperman $2,446,900 Philosophy and Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Social virtue epistemology: What does it take to be an intellectually humble Socratic gadfly? Macquarie University Mark Alfano; Jay Van Bavel $797,870 The Launch of MA & PhD Degrees in Philosophy and the Foundations of Science for Latin America Asociación Civil de…
How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us
A Big Data Approach to Mapping the Effects of Transformative Events How are people transformed by life’s major events? Marriage and divorce, childbirth and death, illness and natural disaster — all can upend people’s lives, altering their outlook and perhaps even their personalities. But not everyone responds to the same upheavals in the same ways. Following a health scare, one person might slide into depression while another might find new sources of joy and gratitude. So how do these major events impact our social worlds and the ways that we cope with change? And what are the psychological characteristics that…
WATCH: Dr. Francis Collins on the Discovery That Filled Him With Awe
Join us in conversation with Dr. Francis Collins, the 2020 Templeton Prize laureate and director of the National Institutes of Health. He recently sat down with Heather Templeton Dill, President of the John Templeton Foundation, to speak about a scientific discovery that filled him with wonder: the moment that he and a colleague identified the genetic defect underlying cystic fibrosis. 'Getting Chills' Collins describes his collaboration with Canadian geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui, who had been working independently on an investigation into the origins of cystic fibrosis. On a rainy night in New Haven, Connecticut, on the campus of Yale University, Collins…
Cultivating Genius, Meditation Podcasts, and $14M for the Science of Purpose: September Monthly Grant Highlights
Recently Approved Grants Public Engagement Individual Freedom & Free Markets Natural Sciences Philosophy & Theology Character Virtue Development Project Title Cultivating Genius Initiative Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose The Successes and Failures of Science through the Lens of Intellectual Humility: Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science Testing the power of forecasting tournaments to foster judgmental accuracy, intellectual humility and open-mindedness in debates over human progress Grantee(s) World Science Foundation The Research Institute of Industrial Economics Regents of the University of Minnesota University of Durham Trustees of…
The Role of Reputations in the Maintenance of Cooperation
