Explore Big History
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
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Science and Ultimate Reality
The Science & Ultimate Reality program honored the vision of theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in his 90th birthday year and took it forward into a new century of increasingly expanding discovery. Wheeler is renowned both as a research leader and extraordinary inspirer and teacher of many of the 20th century’s most creative physicists. Over…
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Amazing Light: Visions for Discovery
Amazing Light: Visions for Discovery was an ambitious, historic, multifaceted program at the University of California, Berkeley, administered by Metanexus Institute and sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and a number of additional sponsors. The program convened some of the greatest minds in physics and cosmology, including 18 Nobel laureates, for an exploration of some…
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Spiritual Capital
Spiritual Capital was an interdisciplinary social scientific research initiative on the economic and social consequences of religion and spirituality, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation. The program sought to integrate the concept of spiritual capital into the human sciences by supporting rigorous and innovative research to build a network of scholars for a new…
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Spiritual Transformation
The Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program seeks rigorous investigation on various aspects of the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. The Program has sponsored conferences, awarded 24 research grants, and conducted special activities that will help to create an interdisciplinary field in the human sciences…
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Templeton Advanced Research Program
The primary goal of this research program was to foster innovation in research design as well as the scientific scope and impact of religion and spirituality. A second goal was to encourage the development of creative insights into the forces that shape and expand world religions and the human conceptualization of God.
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Templeton Research Lectures
The primary aim of the Templeton Research Lectures was to promote dialogue and research between the sciences (physical, biological, human) and religion, theology, and philosophy. Science can inspire great reverence, wonder, and awe. It also raises religious questions of meaning, purpose, and values. By probing the nature of reality through experiment and discovery, science changes…
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Exploring Contemporary Issues in Science, Religion and the Environment in an African Context
Nigerian Association for the Study and Teaching of Religion and the Natural Sciences (NASTRENS) University of Ilorin Ilorin With a core planning group of six members and a larger base of over thirty scholars representing over twenty disciplines, this society convenes monthly to explore a wide range of topics. These topics include the history of…
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Association for the Study of the Interplay between Religion and Science (ASIRS)
University of Maiduguri Maiduguri, Borno State This group of scholars, representing four educational institutions in northeastern Nigeria, brings together academics with expertise in Islamic studies, education, science, and chaplaincy to this advanced regional outreach and engagement project. Focused on promoting science and religion dialogue on a broad and participatory level, core members come together to…
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Dialogue in Religion and Science Group (DRS)
Moi UniversityEldoret This society has assembled a core group of participants, both professors and students, from the academic community of Moi University, Maseno University, and Western University of Science and Technology, representing the disciplines of religion, anthropology, botany, physics, chemistry, sociology, and language, to promote the public understanding of the critical value for a science…