Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
The Axial Age and its Consequences for Subsequent History and the Present

Professor Robert N. Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus
University of California (Berkeley, California)

Professor Hans Joas, Director
Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies

This project supports a small interdisciplinary conference of scholars concerned with the Axial Age (the first millennium BCE) - a critical period in the emergence of theoretic culture, including the development of significant philosophical and religious traditions - and with its consequences up to the present. An edited academic volume of the conference papers is expected.
 August 2007 $155,270
Empirical Expansion in Cognitive Science of Religion and Theology

Dr. Justin L. Barrett, Senior Researcher
Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology [ICEA], and
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology [ISCA], University of Oxford

Professor Robert Trigg, Senior Research Fellow
Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford

This project has two primary dimensions. The first focuses on exposing junior and senior scholars to the cognitive science of religion, with an emphasis on quantitative research methodologies. The second is a grant competition that will provide scholars with pilot research grants for quantitative hypothesis-testing or for theological and philosophical treatments of major, empirically supported claims in the field.
 October 2007 $3,876,247
Science and Religion: World-View Formation in the Context of Africa

Dr. Augustine Shutte, Honorary Research Associate
Department of Philosophy
University of Cape Town (Cape Town South Africa)

This grant explored the significance that science and religion have in an African context. The research resulted in an edited volume The Quest for Humanity in Science and Religion: The South African Experience.
 August 2001 $71,000
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