I won the following research grants and led the projects as project leader:
The Meaning of Creation
Subproject as part of the project “New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe” (auspices: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford). Duration: March 2023 – August 2024. Total volume: USD 40,000. Funding: John Templeton Foundation. This project explored in a multi- and interdisciplinary way the theological and biblical concept of “creation”. Scholars from theology, philosophy, linguistics, medicine and political science contributed to this project whose main outcome was a summer school held in July 2024 in Switzerland.
Religious Hypotheses and the Study of Human Nature
Subproject as part of the project “New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe” (auspices: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford). Duration: 2021-22. Total volume: USD 65,000. Funding: John Templeton Foundation.
In this project, several scholars from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, theology, medicine, psychology and linguistics formulated hypotheses taken from religious texts that could be investigated by the specific methodology of their discipline. The project brought forth an anthology as well as a two-day academic conference in October 2022 in Timisoara, Romania.
Extension to Religious Hypotheses and the Study of Human Nature
Duration: 07/21-12/22. Total volume: USD 30,000. Funding: John Templeton Foundation. In this extension, a literary scholar extended the approach of the project to literature of the “Inklings”, a literary circle that met up in Oxford around the mid-twentieth century, and among which were the famous writers C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.