Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative

The Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative (SYRI) funds research into spiritual yearning, meaning-making, and flourishing among spiritually curious but nonreligious individuals. It supports empirical, conceptual, and normative projects that are cross-disciplinary, especially work that brings philosophy, theology, and religious studies into substantive engagement with the human and social sciences. Projects may use a variety of research methods including qualitative research, surveys, experiments, and theory-construction.

Research funding to support projects addressing spiritual yearning and meaning-making among the nonreligious.

The initiative supports scholarship by scholars within philosophy, theology, religious studies, and the psychological sciences, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary projects addressing spiritual yearning among the nonreligious.

Submit a research proposal through the John Templeton Foundation grants portal.