Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Development of a scientific classification (taxonomy) of religious practices in health to rigourise the design and evaluation of interventions	Coventry University	Deborah Lycett; Riya Patel	$232,181
Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World	University of British Columbia	Azim Shariff; Will Gervais	$139,697
Characterizing and Predicting Variation in Representations of Gods across Culture and History	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Kurt Gray; Joshua Jackson	$234,398
The Intellectual Humility of Psychological Scientists Before and After the Credibility Revolution	University of California, Davis	Simine Vazire; Alexa Tullett	$233,018
Building the Alister Hardy Archive 2.0 : Planning Phase	Center for Mind and Culture	Wesley Wildman; Leslie Francis	$234,697

 

Natural Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Beyond Darwin – Establishing a Theory of Individual-Specific Adaptation, Complementary to Natural Selection	Weizmann Institute of Science	Yoav Soen	$601,583

 

Philosophy & Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Adam Green – ACT Fellowship Application: Divine Hiddenness in Cross-Cultural Perspective	Azusa Pacific University	Adam Green	$191,293
Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation	Chapman University	Uri Maoz	$5,344,062
Evangelical Theology and the Doctrine of Creation	Trinity International University	Tom McCall; Geoffrey Fulkerson	$4,163,270

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
The Everything Happens Project	Issachar Fund	Catherine Bowler; Sara Hohnstein	$210,180
Phase II – Moral Foundation of Movies: Examining the Virtuous Content and Financial Performance of Popular Films	University of California Santa Barbara	Rene Weber; Stacy Smith	$234,219

 

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Character Virtue Development within Moral Ecology: A Proposal for a Fellows Program to Mine Moral Ecology Data	In Medias Res Educational Foundation	Ryan Olson	$742,952

Individual Freedom & Free Markets

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Religion, Institutions, and the Global Common Good Research Project	Religious Freedom Institute	Timothy Shah; Thomas Farr	$1,739,050

 

Recently Featured Grants

New $5.34 Million Grant to Examine the Neuroscience of Free Will

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Templeton Foundation Awards $5.34 Million to Examine Free Will	March 28, 2019	Philanthropy News Digest	Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation
Study: Faith Practices Have Powerful Benefits for Teens	March 25, 2019	ChurchLeaders	Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life
Which Came First, Vengeful Gods or Complex Civilizations?	March 25, 2019	Smithsonian	Axial-Age Religions and the Z-Curve of Human Egalitarianism
Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free will	March 21, 2019	Science	Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation
Big Religion May Have Gotten Too Much Credit for the Evolution of Modern Society	March 20, 2019	Scientific American	Axial-Age Religions and the Z-Curve of Human Egalitarianism
Taking the message ‘It’s OK to not be OK’ global	March 19, 2019	ASU Now	The Pathways to Character Project
Interactive Constitution Classroom Edition on Its Way	March 19, 2019	The Journal	Coalition of Freedom
How to Do Interdisciplinary Work that Works	March 16, 2019	Patheos	Synthesizing Empirical Findings and Theory in the Scientific Study of Religion
Why Strong Character Is a Foundation of Resilience	March 7, 2019	Psychology Today	The Spiritual, Character, and Virtue Formation of Seminarians Creating and Pilot Testing a Seminarian Character/Virtue and Spiritual Development Program Assessment Instrument
Political division can actually help us work together better	March 7, 2019	Futurity.org	Metaknowledge Network: Knowledge About Knowledge to Answer the Big Questions
Following conflict, a turn to the divine	March 5, 2019	The Harvard Gazette	The Emergence of Prosocial Religions: How Cultural Evolution Favored Beliefs and Rituals that Galvanize Large-scale Cooperation

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
How do online learners study? The psychometrics of students’ clicking patterns in online courses	March 25, 2019	PLoS ONE	Tracking and Understanding Cultural Values using Big Data
Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions	March 19, 2019	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	A molecular complexity approach to identifying bio-signatures, shadow-life, and new life forms Exploring the Informational Transitions Bridging Simple Chemistry and Minimal Life
Editorial: Owning a Body + Moving a Body = Me?	March 18, 2019	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience	Hong Yu Wong- ACT Fellowship Application – The New Concept of Mind
An Interdisciplinary Framework for Islamic Cognitive Theories	March 11, 2019	Zygon	Developing Religious Leaders with Scientific Awareness
How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against	March 8, 2019	PLoS Computational Biology	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Evolution of resilience in protein interactomes across the tree of life	March 5, 2019	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Hope, Dying and Solidarity	March 2, 2019	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice	Hope and Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations
Individual differences in the effectiveness of self-distancing for young children’s emotion regulation	March 1, 2019	British Journal of Developmental Psychology	Fostering Self-Control: Strategies that Facilitate Working, Waiting, and Emotion Regulation