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79-612: The institute's stated mission is helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's worldview centers around the sacredness of reality, which includes the “centrality of Spirit,” integration of science and spirituality, and the sacredness of all people and the planet. It supports this mission by working with thought leaders to develop programs and research projects, and issues grants in sectors including faith and spirituality, democracy, education, and organizational culture. The Seasons retreat center, on its campus in Kalamazoo,

158-523: A "leading scholar on Chinese church-society relation". Harold G. Koenig , Dale Mathews, David Larson, Jeffrey Levin, Herbert Benson and Michael McCullough are scholars to whom the foundation has provided funds to "report the positive relations" between religion and medicine . One field in which the foundation has been particularly supportive is positive psychology , as developed by Martin Seligman , Angela Duckworth and others. Positive psychology

237-587: A "sugar daddy" for such thinkers. The foundation also has a history of supporting the Cato Institute , a libertarian think-tank and The Heritage Foundation conservative think-tank, as well as projects at major research centers and universities such as Hernando de Soto 's Instituto Libertad Y Democracia and the X Prize Foundation , which is described as "a nonprofit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity". In

316-402: A "triple-focus," which encompasses three distinct types of attention: "inner," "other," and "outer." "Inner" focus is about self-awareness, "other" focus pertains to empathy, and "outer" focus involves an understanding of our surroundings. Goleman emphasizes that for business leaders, the practice of mindfulness is especially critical. The essence of leadership depends on the successful steering of

395-640: A $ 3.2 million grant to Indiana University and the Stone Age Institute supports the study of "what factors led human ancestors to develop skills like making tools, developing language, and seeking out information". In March 2019, the foundation provided the bulk of a group of grants adding up to over $ 7 million to enable the Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Science (The Brain Institute) at Chapman University to examine "how

474-639: A 2007 article in The Nation Barbara Ehrenreich drew attention to the foundation's former president John M. Templeton Jr. funding of the conservative group Freedom's Watch , and referred to the foundation as a "right-wing venture". Pamela Thompson, former Vice President of Communications of the foundation, replied that "the Foundation is, and always has been, run in accordance with the wishes of Sir John Templeton Sr, who laid very strict criteria for its mission and approach", that it

553-415: A 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship. In a 2010 article on his Discover magazine blog, Mooney wrote, "I can honestly say that I have found the lectures and presentations that we've heard here to be serious and stimulating. The same goes for the discussions that have followed them". Some scholars have expressed concerns about the nature of the awards, research projects, and publications backed by

632-456: A University of California—Santa Cruz astrophysicist, told Nature that they have never felt pressured by Templeton to spin their research toward religion-friendly conclusions. Sunny Bains of University College London Faculty of Engineering Science claimed that there is "evidence of cronyism (especially in the awarding of those million-dollar-plus Templeton prizes), a misleading attempt to move away from using religious language (without changing

711-680: A diversity of contexts". A grant from the foundation supports a study of religion and health conducted by Tyler VanderWeele of Harvard University . VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , and co-director the University's Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality. His research has focused on

790-448: A dozen different meditation systems. He wrote that "the need for the meditator to retrain his attention , whether through concentration or mindfulness , is the single invariant ingredient in the recipe for altering consciousness of every meditation system". In Working with Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books, 1998), Goleman developed the argument that non-cognitive skills can matter as much as IQ for workplace success, and made

869-550: A network of scholars to contribute to the field of forgiveness research. In 2010, the institute released its “Survey of Love and Forgiveness in American Society.” The institute also provided major funding for The Shamatha Project led by B. Alan Wallace and Clifford Saron. This longitudinal research project, completed in 2013, studied how intensive meditation training affects the development of positive human qualities, especially those associated with love and compassion, and

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948-511: A similar argument for leadership effectiveness in Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). Goleman's most recent bestseller is Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Harper, 2013). In Goleman's Book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Harper, 2013) he discusses the secret to success, and how mindfulness allows us to concentrate on what's important. Goleman explains that high achievers of mindfulness have mastered

1027-506: Is "a non-political entity with no religious bias" and it "is totally independent of any other organisation and therefore neither endorses, nor contributes to political candidates, campaigns, or movements of any kind". Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle listed the foundation as among the largest financial contributors to the climate change denial movement between 2003 and 2010. The foundation also funds an affiliated publisher , Templeton Press, which from 2004 to 2010 published

1106-418: Is "the scientific study of what makes life most worth living", or "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life". Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia , "the good life", reflection about what holds the greatest value in life – the factors that contribute

1185-656: Is administered by Bruce Fetzer as President and CEO and actively overseen by a Board of Trustees, which is chaired by Lou Leeburg, to set the direction for the scientific legacy of the organization’s founder John E. Fetzer. More recently, in 2020 the institute commissioned and published “What Does Spirituality Mean to Us? A Study of Spirituality in the United States"; in 2019, it funded a report from The Evangelical & Religious Liberty Commission by Paul D. Miller titled "Faith and Healthy Democracy”; and in 2018 Fetzer president and CEO Bob Boisture published, “Civic Virtues and

1264-686: Is dedicated to enhancing the understanding and application of emotional and social intelligence within organizations by fostering the creation and sharing of knowledge. Currently he co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University . He is on the board of the Mind & Life Institute . Goleman was a science journalist at the New York Times until 1996, covering psychology, emotions, and

1343-740: Is necessary for life but also degrades RNA, and how the introduction of energy to organic materials yielded life rather than turning it into tar. The project is headed by molecular biophysicist and chemist Steven A. Benner . The foundation also awarded an $ 8 million grant to a program examining a theory in evolutionary biology called extended evolutionary synthesis . This project is headed by evolutionary biologist Kevin Laland . Several grants specifically supported inquiry into various aspects of human evolution. A 2014 grant of $ 4.9 million supports an effort at Arizona State University by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson to explore how we became human, and

1422-575: Is the one ingredient that holds us all together. Brian C. Wilson, John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. ISBN   978-0814345306 Daniel Goleman Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist , author, and science journalist . For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times , reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence

1501-487: Is to establish a long-term research program that brings together represented communities. Marios Christodoulou and Carlo Rovelli are the project leaders. In 2016, the foundation granted over seven million dollars to the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), an interdisciplinary program at Harvard University that includes the fields of Astronomy , Physics and Philosophy , and is said to be the first center in

1580-544: Is used to convene partners. GilChrist Retreat Center, in Three Rivers, offers contemplative and spiritual programs and is open to the public. John E. Fetzer, listed in 1986 by Forbes magazine as one of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States, bequeathed most of his assets from the sale of the Detroit Tigers, Fetzer Cablevision, and other enterprises to the institute upon his death in 1991. As of June 2020,

1659-537: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at Yale University 's Child Studies Center, which then moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago . Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) the organization's mission is to introduce social and emotional learning into the education of students from preschool to high school. Social and emotional learning (SEL) entails

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1738-583: The Gen2Gen Encore Prize ; the World Science Festival ; Pew religious demographics surveys; and programs that engage with Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant traditions, including support for dialogue with scientists in synagogues, and a grant for advancing scientific literacy in madrasas . As of 2015 , the foundation awarded nearly a billion dollars in grants and charitable contributions and

1817-589: The University of California at Berkeley through Amherst's Independent Scholar program. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard University . Goleman studied in India using a pre-doctoral fellowship from Harvard and a post-doctoral grant from the Social Science Research Council . While in India, he spent time with spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba , who was also

1896-476: The 2010s, Charles L. Harper Jr., a former senior vice president of the foundation, told BusinessWeek that the foundation had become one of the "principal critics" of the intelligent design movement and funded projects that challenged that movement. Harper Jr. told The New York Times : "From the point of view of rigor and intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don't come out very well in our world of scientific review". Some organizations funded by

1975-643: The Healing of Partisan Divides.” During this time, the institute also began to shape work related to discovering the “sacredness of reality” by integrating the scientific and spiritual ways of knowing. Fetzer has been a major underwriter for Krista Tippett ’s Peabody Award-winning spirituality podcast On Being; Louie Schwartzberg ’s Netflix series Moving Art ; the Mission Joy: Finding Happiness in Troubled Times documentary about

2054-681: The Other”, the “We the People” Book Club Guides, “Virtual Sacred Space”, and the “Practicing Democracy” video series. To extend the reach of its work, the Fetzer Institute partners with co-funders who share a similar vision. These include the John Templeton Foundation , Democracy Fund , Hewlett Foundation , Einhorn Collaborative, and Stand Together . For the institute to succeed, John Fetzer believed that

2133-643: The Templeton Prize is "explicitly critical of such pseudoscientific gibberish as intelligent design". A number of journalists have highlighted connections with conservative causes. A 1997 article in Slate written by David Plotz said the foundation had given a significant amount of financial support to groups, causes and individuals considered conservative , including gifts to Gertrude Himmelfarb , Milton Friedman , Walter E. Williams , Julian Lincoln Simon and Mary Lefkowitz , and called John Templeton Jr.

2212-606: The University of Massachusetts Medical School; and for Parker Palmer ’s teacher formation programs now known as the Center for Courage & Renewal. Work supported by the institute includes research examining how stress, social support, compassionate love, and religiousness and spirituality affect health and healing with studies through the National Institutes of Health, the General Social Survey, and

2291-553: The University's Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality. His research has focused on the application of causal inference to epidemiology, as well as on the relationship between religion and health . In June 2019, the foundation awarded one of its largest grants to the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School for its Ancient DNA Atlas project that seeks to sequence the DNA of ancient human remains to tell

2370-604: The World Health Organization. The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale, “a 16-item self-report measure of … ordinary, or daily, spiritual experiences—not mystical experiences (e.g., hearing voices)—and how they are an everyday part of the individual’s life,” developed by Lynn G. Underwood while at the institute in 1994, has been used widely by researchers in the social sciences and has been translated into more than 28 languages. In 2009 Fetzer worked with pioneering forgiveness researcher Everett Worthington to create

2449-520: The abilities of self-awareness, managing one's own emotions, empathy, and social skills – essentially, how effectively we manage our emotions and understand the emotions of others. His book Emotional Intelligence has been translated into 40 languages globally and was celebrated by TIME magazine as one of the top 25 most pivotal books in the realm of business management. In his first book, The Varieties of Meditative Experience (1977) (republished in 1988 as The Meditative Mind ), Goleman describes almost

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2528-553: The annual Templeton Prize for achievements in the field of spirituality, including those at the intersection of science and religion. It has an extensive grant-funding program (around $ 150 million per year as of 2016) aimed at supporting research in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences as well as philosophy and theology. It also supports programs related to genetics, "exceptional cognitive talent and genius" and "individual freedom and free markets". The foundation receives both praise and criticism for its awards, regarding

2607-604: The application of causal inference to epidemiology, as well as on the relationship between religion and health . The foundation has provided grants in support of dialogue with scientists in synagogues, and a grant for advancing scientific literacy in madrasas . It has also sponsored a major, multi-year, multi-million-dollar effort to integrate science education in North American seminaries, including Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, and Catholic and Orthodox institutions. The foundation provided funding for

2686-433: The book Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, which was edited by historian of science Ronald Numbers . The foundation has received both praise and criticism for its awards. The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has been critical of the foundation for funding "initiatives to bring science and religion closer together." Science journalist Chris Mooney , an atheist, received

2765-518: The brain. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Times . While there, he wrote the internationally bestselling book Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books, 1995), which spent more than a year and a half on The New York Times Best Seller list. Goleman gained widespread recognition for his contributions to the field of emotional intelligence, a notion that includes

2844-478: The breadth of its coverage, and ideological perspectives asserted to be associated with them. John Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor , banker, fund manager , and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund . According to a 2011 profile of the foundation: Like many of his generation, Templeton

2923-558: The center, after the center was dissolved. Some media outlets described the foundation as a supporter of intelligent design during the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District litigation in the mid-2000s, a charge which the foundation denied. The foundation "explicitly warns intelligent-design researchers not to bother submitting proposals: they will not be considered." In March 2009, the Discovery Institute accused

3002-401: The collective focus. This requires not only monitoring external developments relative to the organization but also engaging and guiding the focus of individuals both within and beyond the company's boundaries. Goleman has received many awards, including: John Templeton Foundation The John Templeton Foundation ( Templeton Foundation ) is a philanthropic organization that reflects

3081-404: The development of a general theory of complexity, constituting "a concise, parsimonious, and potentially mathematizable framework for understanding complex adaptive systems". In 2016, the foundation awarded $ 5.4 million to the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME) to study the origin of life on Earth, particularly investigating questions of how early RNA interacted with water, which

3160-432: The field of religion; Mother Teresa received the inaugural award in 1973, with other early winners including Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1975), Chiara Lubich (1977), and Nikkyō Niwano (1979). In the 1980s, John Templeton began considering the intersection of science and religion, and after he appointed two scientists to the judging panel, scientists who worked at the intersection began receiving it; Alister Hardy

3239-426: The field of spirituality could come from anywhere. The field of grants was broadened in the 1980s to include scientific fields like neuroscience, psychology, and cosmology, seen as being aligned with the mission. Some research programs supported by the foundation included the development of positive psychology by Martin Seligman , Angela Duckworth and others; the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University ;

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3318-530: The foundation according to his father's wishes instead of his own. He died in 2015. Heather Templeton Dill, the daughter of John Templeton Jr., became president in 2015. Templeton bequeathed around $ 500 million to the foundation when he died in 2008. As of 2015 the foundation's total endowment had grown to $ 3.34 billion. The foundation reports that it has issued over 3,300 grants, with over 2,800 of those going to recipients in North America. In 2016,

3397-415: The foundation disbursed over $ 151,000,000 in grants. The Templeton Prize was established by John Templeton and he administered the prize until the foundation was established in 1987, which took it over. The prize has "a value of about $ 1.7 million, making it one of the world’s largest annual awards given to an individual". The early prizes were given solely to people who had made great achievements in

3476-781: The foundation for its studies focusing on demographics of religions in the world, part of the series entitled Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures . The Center on Religion and Chinese Society of the Purdue University in Indiana is funded by the foundation. The current director of the center, the Chinese American Christian scholar Fenggang Yang , has been granted more than $ 9.5 million to support his projects, The center has published research on religion in China , especially based on Yang's own theory of

3555-506: The foundation for support, though, are not required to state their religious beliefs, or to have any". In 2006, John Horgan , a 2005 Templeton-Cambridge fellow then working as a freelance science journalist, wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education that he had enjoyed his fellowship, but felt guilty that by taking money from the foundation, he had contributed to the mingling of science with religion. Horgan stated "misgivings about

3634-410: The foundation has supported Christian-oriented research in the field of the scientific study of religions , although the foundation has awarded both the Templeton Prize and numerous grants to persons of widely varied religious backgrounds, having provided extensive funding of Islamic scholarship, Buddhist research, and Jewish public engagement. Wired magazine has noted that "the scientists who apply to

3713-546: The foundation in the 1990s gave book-writing grants to Guillermo Gonzalez and to William Dembski , proponents of intelligent design who later joined the Discovery Institute . The foundation also gave money directly to the Discovery Institute which in turn passed it through to Baylor University, which used the funds to support Dembski's salary at its short-lived Michael Polanyi Center . The foundation funded projects by Bruce L. Gordon , associate director of

3792-579: The foundation of blocking its involvement in Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories , a Vatican-backed, Templeton-funded conference in Rome. On the lack of involvement of any speakers supporting intelligent design, the conference director Rev. Marc Leclerc said, "We think that it's not a scientific perspective, nor a theological or philosophical one ... This makes a dialogue difficult, maybe impossible". In 2011, The Times stated that

3871-482: The foundation's agenda of reconciling religion and science". He said that a conference he attended favored scientists who "offered a perspective clearly skewed in favor of religion and Christianity." Horgan fears recipients of large grants from the foundation sometimes write what the foundation wants rather than what they believe. Richard Dawkins , in his 2006 book The God Delusion , interprets Horgan as saying that "Templeton's money corrupts science", and characterizes

3950-508: The foundation, but observed that many of its critics and grantees alike failed to appreciate "the breadth of the foundation's activities, much less the quixotic vision of its founder, John Templeton". Schneider observed: "At worst, Templeton could be called heterodox and naïve; at best, his was a mind more open than most, reflective of the most inventive and combinatorial strains of American religious thought, eager to radically reinterpret ancient wisdom and bring it up to speed with some version from

4029-496: The foundation. These concerns include questioning its integrity, cronyism, and its Templeton Freedom Awards. Journalist Sunny Bains pointed out in 2011 that Templeton Freedom Awards are administered by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a group that opposes taking action on climate change and defends the tobacco industry, which also gives the foundation funding. Critics have asserted that

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4108-924: The friendship between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ; the PBS series God in America and the Emmy Award-winning PBS Series, Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers . To further its work, the Fetzer Institute brings together leaders, innovators, and stakeholders in its various areas of interest at its retreat center, Seasons. These convenings, which range from contemplative retreats for young leaders to meetings of researchers to advance work in specific sectors, often result in publications and other resources, such as “What Does Spirituality Mean to Us?”, “Sharing Spiritual Heritage”, “Sacredness of

4187-627: The future. Daniel Goleman grew up in a Jewish household in Stockton, California , the son of Fay Goleman (née Weinberg; 1910–2010), professor of sociology at the University of the Pacific , and Irving Goleman (1898–1961), humanities professor at Stockton College (now San Joaquin Delta College ). His maternal uncle was nuclear physicist Alvin M. Weinberg . Goleman attended Amherst College , graduating magna cum laude . He also attended

4266-460: The guru to Ram Dass , Krishna Das , and Larry Brilliant . He wrote his first book based on travel in India and Sri Lanka . Goleman then returned as a visiting lecturer to Harvard, where during the 1970s his course on the psychology of consciousness was popular. David McClelland , his mentor at Harvard, recommended him for a job at Psychology Today , from which he was recruited by The New York Times in 1984. In 1993 Goleman co-founded

4345-406: The human brain enables conscious control of decisions and actions". A grant from the foundation supports a study of religion and health conducted by Tyler VanderWeele of Harvard University . VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , and co-director

4424-403: The ideas of its founder, John Templeton . Templeton became wealthy as a contrarian investor , and wanted to support progress in religious and spiritual knowledge, especially at the intersection of religion and science . He also sought to fund research on methods to promote and develop moral character , intelligence, and creativity in people, and to promote free markets. In 2008, the foundation

4503-514: The institute's endowment is valued at more than $ 560 million. John Fetzer's vision of more consciously integrating the “inner life of mind and spirit with the outer life of action and service” is apparent throughout the institute's programmatic history. Fetzer provided funding through the 1990s toward Daniel Goleman ’s seminal work on emotional intelligence and the establishment of the field of social and emotional learning; for Jon Kabat-Zinn ’s pioneering work on mindfulness-based stress reduction at

4582-781: The largest linguistic group today. The funding was used to embrace a multi-disciplinary approach and crowd-sourced results before the final manuscripts were completed, receiving commentary and feedback from academics of various institutions on several continents, according to geneticist David Reich , lead researcher on the project. The study was also funded by the governments of the US , Russia , Germany ( Max Planck Institute ), European Union and India . Results have been published in Science and Cell . The Pew Research Center, an American fact tank or research organization, has been "jointly and generously funded" by The Pew Charitable Trusts and

4661-403: The methods by which children and young adults develop and use the knowledge, attitudes, and abilities required to comprehend and regulate emotions, and accomplish constructive goals, empathize with others, form and sustain beneficial relationships, and make ethical choices. Goleman also co-founded Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO) in 1996. The organization

4740-621: The most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. Positive psychology began as a new domain of psychology in 1998 when Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association . In 2019, the foundation awarded $ 2.6 million grant to Sarah Schnitker of Baylor University and Benjamin Houltberg of the University of Southern California to "galvanize widespread scientific development of virtue interventions for adolescents across

4819-437: The people running it “must come together and make a settlement within themselves, as to a sense of participation, in the pursuit of this agenda.” He referred to this as a “community of freedom.” To support this philosophy, the institute, under the leadership of president and CEO Bob Boisture, has established a way of working to aid its entire staff in “being the work” and participating in the organization's mission of “Helping build

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4898-570: The present." Though the foundation, in Schneider's view, "has associated itself with political and religious forces that cause it to be perceived as threatening the integrity of science and protecting the religious status quo," these alliances meant the foundation "is also better positioned than most to foster a conservatism—and a culture generally—that holds the old habits of religions and business responsible to good evidence, while helping scientists better speak to people's deepest concerns". In 2011,

4977-528: The prize as going "usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion". Donald Wiebe, a scholar of religious studies at the University of Toronto , similarly criticized the foundation in a 2009 article entitled Religious Biases in Funding Religious Studies Research? . According to him, the foundation supports Christian bias in the field of religious studies, by deliberately imposing constraints to steer

5056-526: The psychological and physiological pathways involved. The Fetzer Franklin Fund was established by the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust, with the support of the John E. Fetzer Institute, to advance the scientific exploration of a relationship-centered view of reality. It supports publications, organises conferences with global outreach, on advanced science fields like quantum physics and quantum mechanics . The Trust

5135-480: The reader", and that "[o]bvious opportunities for detailed investigation – financial records, grantmaking decisions, interviews with Templeton staff, interviews with grantees, examination of correspondence between grantees and Templeton – are entirely absent". A 2007 article in the Los Angeles Times described the foundation as having "drawn criticism for its early support of intelligent design", but by

5214-532: The religious agenda), [and] the funding of right-wing anti-science groups". Bains feels that grants from the foundation "blur the line between science and religion". Bains' claims have been disputed by Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education , who wrote that "the story [Bains] wrote is not convincing", stating that "[k]ey assertions are couched in equivocal language that relies on her judgment or her assumptions, not on any evidence offered to

5293-621: The results of the research. Paul Davies , physicist and 1995 Templeton Prize laureate, gave a defense of the foundation's role in the scientific community in the Times Higher Education Supplement in March 2005. In 2010, journalist Nathan Schneider published a lengthy investigative article about the foundation, entitled God, Science and Philanthropy , in The Nation . In the article, he aired complaints about

5372-560: The science journal Nature took note of the ongoing controversy among scientists over working with Templeton. Jerry Coyne , University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, sees a fundamental impossibility in attempting to reconcile faith with science. Coyne told Nature writer Mitchell Waldrop that the foundation's purpose is to eliminate the wall between religion and science, and to use science's prestige to validate religion. Other scientists, including Foundation grantees like University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo and Anthony Aguirre,

5451-625: The so-called "religious market", with speculations were based on a report of the Pew Research Center, another publication backed by the foundation. Some scholars of Chinese religion have criticized Yang's sociological theories about religion in China, although the New York Times has referred to Yang as "a pioneer in the study of the sociology of religion in China", and the Wall Street Journal has deemed him

5530-429: The spiritual foundation for a loving world”—via diverse policies and staff development efforts—so they can support Institute partners in pursuing this same mission. In 2020, the Center for Evaluation Innovation published the report “Co-creating Our Story: A Hybrid Participatory Case Approach to Evaluating and Accelerating Organizational Change,” documenting this effort. Love is the core energy that rules everything ...love

5609-622: The story of human migration and development through the addition of DNA sequences of 10,000 individuals spanning 50,000 years. The funding was used to solve a riddle that had puzzled historians, classicists, linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists for 200 years - whether the bulk of the European civilization had arrived from Anatolia or the Pontic Steppes of Central Asia , and how Indo-European languages spread over an enormous geographical area from Britain to India , becoming

5688-500: The world to focus on the study of black holes . Notable principal participants include Sheperd Doeleman, Peter Galison , Avi Loeb , Ramesh Narayan , Andrew Strominger , and Shing-Tung Yau . The BHI Inauguration was held on 18 April 2016 and was attended by Stephen Hawking ; related workshop events were held on 19 April 2016. In 2015, the Santa Fe Institute was awarded a three-year, $ 2.5 million grant to support

5767-421: Was a great believer in progress, learning, initiative, and the power of human imagination — not to mention the free-enterprise system that allowed him, a middle-class boy from Winchester, Tennessee, to earn billions of dollars on Wall Street. ... Unlike most of his peers, however, Templeton thought that the principles of progress should also apply to religion. He described himself as "an enthusiastic Christian" — but

5846-518: Was also open to learning from Hinduism, Islam and other religious traditions. Why, he wondered, couldn't religious ideas be open to the type of constructive competition that had produced so many advances in science and the free market? These were the values he sought to promote first through the Templeton Prize which he started in 1972 and then through the foundation, which he founded in 1987 and ran until he died in 2008. John Templeton Jr.

5925-533: Was awarded the National Humanities Medal . In 2016, Inside Philanthropy called it "the oddest—or most interesting—big foundation around." Templeton founded the organization in 1987 and headed it as chairman until he died in 2008. Templeton's son, John Templeton Jr. , served as its president from its founding until his death in 2015, at which point Templeton Jr.'s daughter, Heather Templeton Dill, became president. The foundation administers

6004-401: Was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half, a bestseller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence , Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis , and the Dalai Lama 's vision for

6083-417: Was president of the foundation from its inception in 1987 and worked as a pediatric surgeon; he was chief of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1995, when he stopped practicing medicine to join the foundation. He took over as chairman when his father died. He was an evangelical Christian and supported various American conservative causes. He always maintained that he tried to run

6162-673: Was the 55th largest grantor among American foundations. The top ten largest grants as of 2018 were: The John Templeton Foundation granted over two million dollars in 2019, and then 4.5 million dollars in 2022 to QISS. The QISS consortium brings together specialists from quantum gravity , quantum information , foundations of quantum mechanics , as well Philosophy of Science to the physics of quantum spacetime on an information theoretical basis, bring within reach empirical access to quantum gravity phenomenology leveraging rapidly advancing quantum technologies, and promote interactions between physicists and philosophers. The broader goal of QISS

6241-727: Was the first, in 1987. More recent winners of the Templeton Prize have included the Dalai Lama in 2012, King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2018, Brazilian Jewish physicist and astronomer Marcelo Gleiser in 2019, and primatologist Jane Goodall in 2021. Templeton "was a great believer in progress, learning, initiative and the power of human imagination—not to mention the free-enterprise system". While most of its funding goes to topics in science, philosophy, and religion, around 40 percent of its annual grants go to character development, genius, freedom, free enterprise, and fields associated with classical liberalism . Grants are given to people across all religions since Templeton believed progress in

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