, the world's largest
online academic library, has added more than 3,500 titles from the Taylor +
Francis Group to its extensive online collection of over 50,000 academically
vetted, full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Through Questia, teachers, students, and scholars in over
190 countries have access anytime, anywhere to a first-rate, 24-hour library
focused on the humanities and social sciences.questia. The aim of the program is
to catalyze the development of this interdisciplinary research field, which
may become a vital new field in the social sciences .

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"It is essential in today's world that scholars take seriously the broader
significance of spiritual capital," says Sargeant.

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Taylor + Francis is one of more than 250 academic and commercial
publishers who have licensed content to the Questia library . In
addition, Questia provides a personalized workspace for each user, complete
with an individual bookshelf and reference resources.

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Project summaries may be found online at
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Publishers gain a new
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The Spiritual Capital Research Program is interested in supporting high-
level, impartial scholarship on the contribution of religion - both for good
and for ill - to economic and social developments. Metanexus is
a leader in a growing network of individuals and groups exploring the dynamic
interface between cosmos, nature, and culture in communities and on campuses
throughout the world.

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Now, we are
pleased to provide individuals and researchers from around the world with the
ability to purchase instant access to a collection of our titles through
Questia. In
addition , Questia delivers 21st century research tools and a customizable
research environment, allowing users quickly and easily to set their own
workspace and reading preferences; create project folders and personal
bookshelves; and automatically develop properly formatted footnotes and
bibliographies in seven different citation styles.
A digital toolkit enables researchers to highlight text, properly cite
passages, and automatically generate bibliographies and footnotes. Sargeant, the director of the Spiritual Capital Research
Program based at the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science . The ten new
Spiritual Capital grantees, representing disciplines such as economics,
history , political science, and sociology, were selected from these finalists
following a rigorous peer review process.

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"The mutual interaction of religion and economics is an important, but
neglected area for research and public policy," says William Grassie,
executive director of the Metanexus Institute . The Principal Investigators heading these teams and their
projects are:

Laurence Iannaccone , George Mason University: Creating an "Ecology" for
the Study of Religion, Economics, and Spiritual Capital

Timur Kuran, University of Southern California: The Role of Religion in
the Economic Performance of Civilizations

Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin: Project on Religion and
Economic Change

Each of these three projects began in March 2005 and is 30 months in
duration. Just 100 years ago Max
Weber published his provocative work "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism.

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"The newly funded studies will
go a long way towards illuminating these dynamics and providing insights to
the benefit of humanity. For further information, please
contact Christopher Stawski at 215-789-2200 or spiritualcapital@metanexus.
http://www.

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"For more than six years, Questia has been at the forefront of efforts to
provide researchers and educators with online access to the most current,
copyrighted content available.

About Questia
Questia Media, Inc.metanexus.

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Questia has pioneered a business model that hundreds of thousands of
individual subscribers, as well as many of the world's leading publishers have
validated .
For $19.net.

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Questia transforms the research experience by enabling users to instantly
search every word of a 20 million page-collection of peer-reviewed, previously
published content that is not available anywhere else on the Internet.

Ten Grants of $150 000 Each Awarded for Research on 'Spiritual Capital' By Metanexus Institute

In spring 2005, three scholars each received founding grants of $500,000
to lead teams of researchers in the first projects of the Spiritual Capital
Research Program. A membership
organization, Metanexus hosts an online magazine and discussion forum with
over 180,000 monthly page views and 8000 regular subscribers in 57 different
countries .

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The agreement adds a wide variety of books to Questia's scholarly collection
focused in the humanities and social sciences. PHILADELPHIA, Ten grants of $150,000 each for
high-level research in the emerging field of "Spiritual Capital" have been
announced by Kimon H."
Following a call for proposals, 43 finalists were chosen to submit full
proposals from a pool of more than 560 applicants , representing many of the
top research institutions in the United States and abroad.templeton.org

Regularly issued scholarly publications that deal history in general or a specific historical period or topic.

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traditional research problems, such as missing or checked -out books, books
unavailable due to reserve lists, and limited research facility hours, by
permitting an unlimited number of simultaneous users and providing individual
researchers with complete freedom and mobility to use the online library from
any Internet-enabled computer, night and day.
Founded in 1988, Questia Media is based in Houston."
Since then, social scientists have vigorously debated the concept of
social capital, but spiritual capital - a sub-set of the field - remains
relatively understudied.net

The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to pursue new insights at
the boundary between theology and science through a rigorous, open-minded and
empirically focused methodology, drawing together talented representatives
from a wide spectrum of fields of expertise .

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Questia's innovative business model of a low monthly subscription fee
provides individuals the ability to pay for access to a massive collection of
first-rate, copyrighted content while ensuring that publishers are compensated
appropriately for its use.

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Questia Makes More Than 3 500 Taylor + Francis Titles Available Online

(Logo: http://www.metanexus.
In "The Wealth of Nations ," Adam Smith raised key questions for the
economic analysis of religion and looked at the effects of competition among
religions and the dangers of government of religion. Metanexus sponsors dialogue groups, lectures,
workshops, research, courses, grants, and publications.

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Students, instructors , and lifelong learners in more
than 190 countries use Questia's collection of full-text, copyrighted and
public domain books and articles for scholarly research. Although religion and
spirituality are rich sources of personal meaning, they also have profound
public significance.

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HOUSTON, Questia Media, Inc. Our agreement with Taylor + Francis adds a
wealth of titles from a highly respected academic publisher to our first-rate
collection," said Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia Media.
"Taylor + Francis is committed to publishing scholarly information of the
highest quality ," said Christoph Chesher, group sales director for Taylor +
Francis Group. Metanexus leads and
facilitates over 300 projects in 36 countries.
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In addition, publishers' intellectual property is
protected from digital copyright violation because Questia's content is not
available for download or off-line viewing and the books are displayed one
page at a time, maintaining the original pagination .95 a year, individuals can
have unlimited access to Questia's growing collection of more than 50 ,000
academically vetted, full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine, and
newspaper articles . provides the world's largest online academic library
and research resource. Designed for use by
educators and students to enhance curricula, the Questia service also includes
a course management system that integrates the digital library content into
the classroom. "Although the social
sciences have often minimized the importance of religion, there is now a
growing openness among scholars to consider how trust, behavioral norms and
religion can profoundly shape economic, political and social developments.

The Metanexus Institute advances scientific research, education and
outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion.

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The Principal Investigators awarded grants and their projects are:

Peter Berger, Boston University: Spiritual Capital in Developing Societies

Wendy Cadge, Bowdoin College: Comparing Spiritual and Other Forms of
Social Capital: Lessons from the Immigrant Experience

Robert Dowd, University of Notre Dame: Religiosity and Political Culture:
Christians, Muslims and Spiritual Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame: Religious Capital and Public
Policy in the 20th Century

Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge: Innovation and the Resilience of
Religion

Michael Kremer, Harvard University: The Impact of the Hajj

John Levi Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Structures of Social
and Spiritual Capital in Religious and Nonreligious Groups

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine: A Pious and Profitable
Mystery: Guilds, Purgatory, Reformation, the Multiplication of Religious
Denominations, and the Evolution of Industrial Society in Late-Medieval and
Early Modern England

David Sikkink , University of Notre Dame: The Dynamics of Spiritual Capital
in US Congregations

Fenggang Yang, Purdue University: Faith and Trust in the Emerging Market
Economy in China

These funded projects were launched in January 2006 and are up to 24
months in duration.

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Publishers; Palgrave Macmillan; Peter Lang Publishing; Princeton University
Press and Prometheus Books among many others. Since last year, individuals have been able to purchase
access to our titles individually through our own eBookstore. The Spiritual Capital Research Program is designed to
fund innovative research that could lead to new understandings of religion's
role in economic, social and political life.

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Secondary school students and educators gain access to
Questia's 21st century academic library based on the number of individual
subscriptions purchased by each school or district.
Questia 's unlimited, 24/7 access allows researchers to simultaneously use
every item in its online, scholarly library from any connected corner of the
world.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050324/PHTH031LOGO )
These grants from the Metanexus Institute are supported by generous
funding from the John Templeton Foundation to help develop a new
interdisciplinary field of "Spiritual Capital" research. As with the Spiritual Capital Research Program's initial
grants, awarded in 2005, the results of this new research will be disseminated
through scholarly and lay publications, conferences, speaking engagements and
websites .

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"Our new partnership with Questia is an important aspect of
our e-strategy.95 a month, $44. Only in recent years have leading scholars, including
Nobel laureate economists Gary Becker and Robert Fogel and political
scientists John DiIulio and Robert Putnam, called renewed attention to the
effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs and institutions on
economics, politics and societies .

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"We
respect and value the close ties Taylor + Francis has with the academic
community, and look forward to providing them with another distribution
vehicle for their titles. All 13 grantees will meet annually in 2006 and 2007 to discuss
their projects and begin building the network for this new field of study. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative, the Templeton Research Lectures , and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, and the
Templeton Advanced Research Program as well as other endeavors.

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