Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Tracking and Understanding the Effects of Transformative Events in People’s Lives	Regents of the University of Michigan	Rada Mihalcea; James Pennebaker	$1,684,328
Systematic Review and Analysis of US Federal Investments in Research on Religion and Health	University of Connecticut	Crystal Park; John Salsman	$234,207
The Third Religion, Economics and Society (RES) Initiative: Making the Economic Study of Religion and Religious Markets a Field of the Future	Chapman University	Jared Rubin	$325,346
Divine forgiveness: Phase 1	Florida State University Research Foundation Inc.	Frank Fincham	$233,994
Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches	President and Fellows of Harvard College	Tyler VanderWeele	$1,226,926

 

Philosophy & Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
The Genealogical Adam and Peaceful Science	Washington University	S. Joshua Swamidass	$103,029

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Project to Foster Intellectual Humility and Counter the Psychology of Tribalism	Union Theological Seminary	Robert Wright	$233,999
Science and Religion: A Dialogue of Cultures	The Lumen Christi Institute	Thomas Levergood; Michael Le Chevallier	$234,767
The Big Ideas Series: Production, Distribution, and Evaluation, The World Science Festival (WSF)	World Science Foundation	Tracy Day	$2,984,698

 

Recently Featured Grants

Is Empathy a Renewable Resource?

How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing

A Scientific Approach to Living in Love: A Framework for the Future

The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Christian Trust in God

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Philosophers Win $1.1 Million in Grants to Study Epistemology of Religion	January 24, 2019	Daily Nous	The Christian West and Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge
Baylor University Receives $2.6 Million Grant from the John Templeton Foundation for Character Strength Interventions in Adolescents	January 23, 2019	Baylor University	Character Strength Interventions in Adolescents: Engaging Scholars and Practitioners to Promote Virtue Development
The Art of Decision-Making	January 21, 2019	The New Yorker	Aspects of Religious Experiences: Investigations from Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies
Program equips graduates of traditional Muslim schools for engagement with wider world	January 18, 2019	The Christian Century	Advancing Scientific and Theological Literacy in Madrasa Discourses in India
Dementia and religion: Inside a church’s Alzheimer’s caregiver support group	January 18, 2019	The Salt Lake Tribune	Double Helix: Informing the public about how science and religion are intertwined
Are Our Brains Wired for Free Will?	January 10, 2019	Dartmouth News	The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth
USC’s Spiritual Exemplars Project to Uncover Stories of Hope	January 8, 2019	University of Southern California	Spiritual Exemplars: A Global Project on Engaged Spirituality
“Servant Leaders.” The Foundation That Wants to Cultivate Key Virtues Among Educators	January 4, 2019	Inside Philanthropy	Can Leadership Virtues be Taught? Developing Virtuous School Leaders
New Harvard Study Finds That Parental Warmth in Childhood is Associated with Subsequent Flourishing Across Multiple Domains	January 3, 2019	PR Newswire	Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Lessons learned: Young children’s use of generic-you to make meaning from negative experiences	January 1, 2019	Journal of Experimental Psychology: General	The Toolbox Project: Changing the way children learn about self-control
Parental warmth and flourishing in mid-life	January 1, 2019	Social Science & Medicine	Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life
Predictive coding in the psychological sciences of religion: on flexibility, parsimony, and comprehensiveness	January 2, 2019	Religion, Brain & Behavior	The Representation of God in relation to Self Interview (RGSI): A move to the representational level in the attachment-religion connection
On the Reciprocally Causal and Constructive Nature of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness	January 10, 2019	Frontiers in Genetics	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Comparative genomics of Bacteria commonly identified in the built environment	January 28, 2019	BMC Genomics	ELSI Origins Network (EON) for Research Into the Origins of Life