Past Projects
Project: The Persistence of “Wild” Religious Traditions: How the Handling of Misfortune Influences the Dynamics of Folk Religions
Project Director: Pascal Boyer.
Co-Directors: Claire White and Harvey Whitehouse.
Funding: Templeton Religion Trust Grant (US $2.5 million)
Project: Ritual Modes: Divergent Modes of Ritual, Social Cohesion, Prosociality, and Conflict
Principal Investigators: Harvey Whitehouse
Funding: a European Research Council Advanced Grant
Project: Cognitive and Cultural Foundations of Religion and Morality
Principal Investigators: Harvey Whitehouse and Jonathan Jong
Funding: Templeton World Charity Foundation
Project: Natural Governance
Principal Investigators: Harvey Whitehouse, Dominic Johnson and David Macdonald
Project: ALIGNED: Quality-centric Software and Data Engineering
Principal Investigators: Kevin Feeney. Co-Investigators: Jim Davies, Harvey Whitehouse, Sebastian Hellemann, Andreas Koller, Christian Dirschl, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Jeremy Gibbons, Piotr Bledzki, and Pieter François
Funding: European Commission H2020
Project: Axial-Age Religions and the Z-Curve of Human Egalitarianism
Principal Investigator: Peter Turchin
Co-Investigators: Thomas Currie, Harvey Whitehouse, Peter Peregrine, Kevin Feeney, and Douglas White
Funding: John Templeton Foundation
Project: Ritual, Community, and Conflict
Principal Investigator: Harvey Whitehouse
Funding: Economic and Social Research Council Large Grant
Project: Identifying the Intra-Group Causes of Inter-Group Conflict: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework and Research Centre
Principal Investigator: Harvey Whitehouse
Funding: John Fell OUP Research Fund
Project: Religion's Impact on Human Life: Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives
Principal Investigators: Harvey Whitehouse, David Sloan Wilson, and Jon Lanman
Funding: John Templeton Foundation
Project: The Development of Teleological and Causal Reasoning About Ritualized Action
Co-Investigators: Harvey Whitehouse and Cristine Legare
Funding: McDonnell Foundation Research Grant and John Fell Fund Grant
Project: Explaining Religion
Principal Investigator: Harvey Whitehouse
Funding: European Commission NEST Pathfinder Grant