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Open RFP Grant Award Winners Announced
Metanexus Press Release, 02.2006
Ten grants of $150,000 each for high-level research in the emerging field of “Spiritual Capital” have been announced by Kimon H. Sargeant, the director of the Spiritual Capital Research Program based at the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. [More]

Invitation RFP Grant Award Winners Announced
Metanexus Press Release, 03.2005
Three distinguished scholars have each received grants of $500,000 to lead teams of researchers in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of “Spiritual Capital” research. The grants are awarded through a program of the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, supported by generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation. [More]

God, man and growth
The Economist, 11.13.2003
If you want to avoid an argument over religion at your next dinner party, you might suppose it safe to invite an economist or two. They, of all people, could be expected to stick to Mammon. Or maybe not, if a new paper by Robert Barro, one of America's best-known economists, and Rachel McCleary, a colleague at Harvard University, is any guide. It explores the influence of religious belief and observance on economic growth. [More]