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Empirical Expansion in the Cognitive Science of Religion and Theology

Project Leader(s)

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

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

Grantee(s)

University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Description

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.

Grant Amount:
$3,876,247
Start Date:
October 2007
End Date:
August 2010
Grant ID:
12682
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