Anthropology
FEATURED GRANT
Modes of Religiosity: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
Professor Luther H. Martin, Department of Religion
University of Vermont (Burlington VT)
Professor Robert N. McCauley, Department of Philosophy
Emory University (Atlanta GA)
This
grant helped support two interdisciplinary workshops whereby an international
group of scholars assessed the new, cognitively based "modes of
religiosity" theory of religion, originally developed by Dr. Harvey
Whitehouse. These workshops, the American component of a larger research
project partially funded by the British Academy, were held at the University
of Vermont and at Emory University. Research has been published in the edited
volumes Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition
(AltaMira Press, 2004) and Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive
Foundations of Religion (AltaMira Press, 2005).
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Sample Grants
| Grant Title |
Award Date |
Grant Amount |
| |
- Religious Evolution Research
Professor Robert N. Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology
Emeritus
Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley CA) - This
grant provides support for a book Professor Bellah is writing on religious
evolution from prehistory to the Axial Age. His research will primarily
focus on Israel, Greece and China.
|
May 2004 |
$22,500 |
- Regaining a Non-Reductionist Understanding of Human Personhood: Concepts of Law in the Sciences
Professor Dr. Michael Welker, Director of International
Science Forum
University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg Germany) - This
grant supports two concurrent research projects. One will expand the science
and religion discourse to engage legal studies and the philosophy of law. The
second research area focuses on the discourse between scientists and
philosophers on considering the concept of law in brain research and on the
genome. The first colloquium convened an interdisciplinary group of 20 scholars
from 7 countries working in 11 different academic fields.
|
June 2005 |
$286,000 |
- The Emergence of Biological Complexity
Professor Derek Burke, Former Vice Chancellor
University of East Anglia (Norwich UK)
Dr. Jonathan Doye
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK)
Dr. Ard A. Louis, Royal Society Research Fellow
Cambridge University (Cambridge UK)
Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS
Department of Earth Science
University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK)
Professor Graeme Barker FBA, Director
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Head, Department of Anthropology
University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK)
Professor Chris Scarre, Deputy Director
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK) - This
grant initiated a Request for Proposals [RFP] program to stimulate and sponsor
new empirical research and theoretical insights directly pertinent to the
'great debate' over the emergence of increasing biological complexity. The
scope of funded research ranges from the biochemical level to the evolution
of life, and the emergence of society and culture.
|
March 2005 |
$3,584,147 |
