Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Global Pentecostalism Survey Project

Luis Lugo, Ph.D., Director
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (Washington DC)

This grant supports a ten-country survey of Pentecostal and charismatic Christians in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, India, the Philippines and South Korea done in conjunction with the Forum's annual religion and public life survey.
 April 2006 $500,000
Baylor University Survey of American Religion [SOAR]: Longitudinal Survey of Religious Beliefs and Values

Professor Byron R. Johnson, Co-Director
Institute for Studies of Religion

Professor Rodney Stark

Professor Christopher D. Bader

Professor Paul Froese

Professor F. Carson Mencken, Director of Graduate Studies

This grant supports a three-year cross-sectional mixed-mode survey to assess and disseminate national trends on religious behaviors and beliefs. The Institute is collaborating with the Gallup Organization on the design, implementation, and analysis of the survey instrument. The results of the first wave were released at the National Press Club on September 11, 2006.
 January 2005 $715,976
Longitudinal Research on Life Course Trajectories and Psychosocial Implications in Late Adulthood on Religiousness and Spirituality

Professor Paul Wink
Department of Psychology
Wellesley College (Wellesley MA)

Professor Michele Dillon
Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire (Durham NH)

This research grant supported an investigation into the life-course trajectories, antecedents and implications of religion for psychosocial functioning in late adulthood. Professors Wink and Dillon currently have a book manuscript, multiple articles and book chapters in press, and have three articles published. They have also made 18 independent conference presentations based on their research.
 January 2003 $383,675
The International Religion Data Initiative: Documenting Religion's Impact

Professor Roger Finke, Director
The Association of Religion Data Archives [ARDA]
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park PA)

This grant supports a research initiative to assemble, generate, archive, and disseminate new international data on religion through an expanded version of the online American Religion Data Archive. The Initiative will produce resources for understanding the effects of religion worldwide, especially for journalists.
 July 2005 $676,420
The Changing Role of Religion and Spirituality Around the World

Dr. Thomas W. Smith
National Opinion Research Center [NORC]

This grant supports the International Social Survey Program [ISSP] 2008 cross-national study designed to learn about the role that religion and spirituality play in society and human development around the world. This project augments the past ISSP study on religion by adding 5 countries representing religious traditions underrepresented by the 40 countries participating in the ISSP.
 June 2005 $349,000
Religion, Religiousness and Fertility in the U.S. and Europe

Professor Charles F. Westoff, Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology, Emeritus
Office of Population Research [OPR]
Princeton University (Princeton NJ)

This study focuses on the significance of religion and religiousness for a fundamental dimension of human behavior – reproduction. The research will explore quantifying the extent to which documented differences in religiousness between the U.S. and Europe and declines in religiousness over time are connected with different levels and trends of fertility.
 July 2006 $188,747
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