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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…