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JTF Meeting Oct 31
1. Religion’s Impact on Human
Life
Phase 1: Ritual’s Impact on the Contemporary World
2. Building on RCC and BRSP
• Extending RCC
• Sub-granting Program
– Cross-cultural replication and extension of
RCC
• BRSP and SRSP
– Expansion of RSP within Binghamton and to
Singapore
3. Extending RCC
• Field, Survey, and Lab Studies on:
– Prayer and Fusion
• E.g., Field studies in churches, M-Turk
– Rituals, CREDS, and Belief
• E.g., M-Turk, CREDs video paradigm
– Secular Rituals and Social Bonding
• E.g., Sororities, fraternities
4. Sub-granting Program
• £300,000 across 3 years
– Projects: £250,000
• Up to £30,000 p.a.
• 3 months—2 years
– Regional experts: £50,000
• Up to £10,000 per expert
5. BRSP
• Historical Database
– Records, interviews, other material (e.g., sermons)
• Correlational, Longitudinal, and Spatial Analyses
– Records, Survey, Geo-coding
• Analysing core design features & Community Action
– From religious values to actionable goals
• Quantitative analytic tools
– Human raters/coders, Semantic Network
Analysis, Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count, etc.
6. SRSP
• NUS, Singapore as a Continental Hub
– Setting up the foundations:
• Establish academic collaborations
• Establish community collaborations
• Preliminary data collection
Editor's Notes
As we shall see, there are no necessarily modular projects; they can and should cross-fertilize.
Jon L, Miriam, Jon J, and other collaborators will oversee this research. However, these ideas may be implemented via the sub-granting and BRSP/SRSP projects too.
To be discussed:Proportion of small to big grantsHow many waves?First wave deadline?First wave candidates:Emma Cohen for a synchrony project in Northern BrazilCristineLegare for a child imitation project in Vanuatu (Tanna)Veronika Rybanska for a ritual and executive control project in Vanuatu (Efate)Dimitris Xygalatas for ritual and dysphoria naturalistic project in MauritiusChris Kavanagh for a ritual and dysphoria experimental project in Japan
NB: This departs slightly from the proposal. These are methods, but we need to pin down the variables of interest, as outlined on p. 33 of the proposal.Budget: £300,000 across 3 yearsIan MacDonald: Scope of responsibility to be discussed.PhD. student: Scope of responsibility to be discussed.Misc.: Equipment, software, etc.
This is probably our most risky endeavour. The success of the BNP is driven, at least in part, by the relationships Wilson et al. have formed with other academic and community (e.g., religious) groups. Philip Cho, our point man in Singapore will have to make similar contacts within Singapore. To be discussed:How best to exploit Philip’s presence at NUS (e.g., contacts, additional funding)?Do we know anyone else in the region?Planning a conference in Singapore
