Templeton Religion Trust

Religion shapes how communities form, how cultures evolve, and how people make meaning. Grantee Christian Smith at the University of Notre Dame is building the academic infrastructure to study it that way, through research grants, writing fellowships, and curriculum projects that take religion seriously as a subject of scholarly inquiry.

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Science progresses through findings that others can check, build on, and trust. Grantee Brian Nosek at the Center for Open Science is working to make that the norm. His platform gives researchers across every field of scholarship the tools to share their data, register their studies, and work more openly. More than 600,000 researchers are already using it.

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Little is actually known about the religious, spiritual, and secular affiliations of faculty.

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What does it mean to flourish? Grantees Tyler VanderWeele and Byron Johnson lead the largest study of human flourishing ever conducted, spanning 22 countries and more than 200,000 people.

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Climate deals. Elections. War zones. The stories that dominate the news cycle are often shaped by religious belief, community, and identity, but most journalists were never trained to see it.

Grantee Joshua R. Good is changing that. His project equips reporters to recognize the religious currents running beneath the stories they already cover, and to cover them more accurately as a result.

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