We
are looking for the enthusiastic involvement of scientists and scholars
from around the world who want to advance the cause of interdisciplinary
research on the nature
of spiritual transformation. Applicants from anthropology, sociology,
psychology, psychiatry, pharmacology, neurology, biology, neuroscience,
and religious studies are encouraged to apply. We also recommend,
where possible, that researchers and religionists seek to collaborate
on research under this announcement.
We want to attract distinguished and emerging researchers who are
experimenting with creative new methodologies and techniques for
examining human expression and experience. Studies of diverse religious
traditions and practices under the rubric of spiritual transformation
are welcome.
The Principal Investigator of the Spiritual Transformation Scientific
Research Program is Solomon
H. Katz, President of the Metanexus Institute on Religion
and Science and Director of the Krogman Center for Research in Child
Growth and Development at the University of Pennsylvania.
Collaborators in the study include David
Hufford, Director of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic
Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine, and Byron
Johnson, Director and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the
Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Advisory Board Members and Consultants include:
Edward
F. Foulks, Tulane University
Philip
Hefner, Zygon Center for Religion and Science
Joan
D. Koss-Chioino, Arizona State University
Kenneth
Pargament, Bowling Green State University
Lawrence
E. Sullivan, Harvard University
Robert
Wuthnow, Princeton University
Click for a series of questions designed
to provide a guide to further investigation into spiritual transformation.
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