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Developing Character for Chicago Inner-City Youth
Religious Perspectives and Academic Inquiry in Higher Education: For-Credit Course Development at Duke University
Building Faith and Astronomy Awareness
Our place within the cosmological multiverse: Insights from biological energy landscapes and transition networks
TEX Fellowship: Creation and Characterization of Novel Momentum Sensing Protocols in Atoms and Momentum Sensing of Atoms in a Lattice Interferometer
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Expanding and Accelerating Conversations That Inspire Awe and Wonder, Human Flourishing, and Intellectual Humility – on University Campuses and Beyond
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism in the 21st Century: Honoring and Extending the Work of Michael Novak
JTF Symposium: Does Religion Contribute to Human Flourishing?
CAMBRIDGE, Ma. – At a time of spiritual dynamism, as religions surge in the global south and traditional faith affiliations decline in the west, the John Templeton Foundation brought together scholars for a three-day symposium at Harvard to discuss a question of growing academic interest: Does religion contribute to human flourishing? And if so, how can such flourishing be measured among individuals, groups, and social and cultural institutions? The event, organized by the Foundation's Humble Approach Initiative in collaboration with Harvard's Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, featured presentations on the topic by over a dozen academics from institutions around the…
Did Religion Help the Rise of Civilizations in the Americas?
Religions and the Emergence of Civilizations in the Americas In our contemporary culture, it is often assumed that organized religion is a conservative force that impedes the development of human societies. Depending on one’s allegiances, one may view religion as an obstacle that must be overcome, or as a fortification against society’s descent into chaos. But rarely does anyone stop and ask the question, “To what degree might religion actually contribute to cultural innovation and progress of a society?” Historians in recent years have challenged the modernist assumption that religious institutions are obstacles to human flourishing. Rather than accepting this…
Rooted in Relationships: Cultivating Character Through Communities of Practice
Experimental Signatures of Quantum Gravity using Ultracold Atoms
The Evolution of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena It’s easy to take cooperation for granted. Children team up to complete a project on time. Neighbors help each other mend fences. Colleagues share ideas and resources. The very fabric of human society depends upon working together. Cooperation is also ubiquitous in the natural world: lions collaborate on hunts, flowers share nectar with bees, and even bacteria produce essential resources that benefit their neighbors. But cooperation goes beyond mere quid pro quo — mutual aid for mutual benefit — and also takes the form of…
Applied Islamo-Monism: Wahdat al-Wujud for Today
Devotion as an Expression of Spiritual Yearning: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations
To Change How You Feel, Change How You Think
How God Works Podcast (Seasons 3-6)
Atheism and Unbelief
Towards a psychology and sociology of atheism and non-belief If the world’s estimated 1.1 billion atheists and non-believers were grouped together as their own “religion,” they would be the world’s third-largest, trailing only Christianity and Islam. Any serious psychology or sociology of religion must take into account the beliefs and experiences of non-believers — yet the scientific study of atheism and non-belief has lagged behind the study of religions, with varied forms of non-belief often relegated to being defined by what they aren’t rather than what they are. The John Templeton Foundation enthusiastically supports scientific research that touches on many…
Using the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) to Strengthen the Religion Research Community
Wandering Mazes Lost: Investigating Arguments over the Problem of Existence.
Desmond Tutu’s Message of Love and Peace for Easter
Spirituality and Medicine
Scientists and medical practitioners are taking a fresh look at the ways that patients’ religious beliefs affect their healthcare needs. When we think of the frontiers where religion and science intersect — in conflict, harmony, or confusion — we might envision a philosophical debate at a university, a particle accelerator probing the origins of the universe, or perhaps a high-stakes courtroom battle like the Scopes “Monkey” trial. For most people, though, the realms of the spiritual and the scientific meet most practically on the sickbed. Doctors, nurses, and other health care providers, along with patients and their loved ones, are…
Finding Joy Through Generosity
Goal-directed outcomes in complex chemical systems
Preaching with the Sciences: An imaginative approach to Roman Catholic Homiletics
Future-Mindedness
Great Expectations: New insights into how and why we think about the future What do you expect to be doing in five seconds? Five months? Five decades? Thinking about the future is a form of mental time travel at which humans are uniquely skilled. Psychologists call it prospection or future-mindedness, and some have argued it offers an invaluable framework for understanding topics ranging from perception, cognition, imagination, and memory to free will and consciousness itself. In a 2013 paper — later expanded into the book Homo Prospectus — University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman and co-authors Peter Railton,…
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Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative: The Search For Meaning Among The Nonreligious
Can We Know God? New Insights From Religious Epistemology
Are religious beliefs rational? Is knowledge of God even possible? Are the evils we observe in the world evidence against God’s existence? Since the late twentieth century, epistemological questions of this nature have been central to the philosophy of religion. The work of two leading theistic philosophers, Alvin Plantiga and Richard Swinburne, divided the field of research into two distinct research programs. Broadly speaking, the debates between the two camps are representative of two larger positions in epistemology: internalism, according to which the rationality of beliefs is only determined by factors internally accessible to the believer; and externalists, according to…
