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(Logo: http://www.net/spiritual_capital.metanexus.

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SEATTLE, A weekend seminar titled "No More This Or
That" will be taught on April 8th (7 pm to 9 pm) and 9th and 10th (9:30 am to
5 pm) at the Comfort Suites near Seattle Center (601 Roy St. Metanexus leads and
facilitates over 300 projects in 36 countries.

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Project summaries may be found online at
http://www. 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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"No More This Or
That" introduces attendees to understanding the nature and function of
unavoidable human paradoxes, and learning how choices can be made that can
ease the pain when they are experiencing dilemma."
"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. Just 100 years ago Max
Weber published his provocative work "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism.

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Facticity's unique six-step process will
teach you how to connect your spiritual wisdom to your daily life in a
stunningly simple, practical, and heartfelt way. 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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For further information, please
contact Christopher Stawski at 215-789-2200 or spiritualcapital@metanexus. 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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Although religion and
spirituality are rich sources of personal meaning , they also have profound
public significance.metanexus.

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'No More This Or That' Seminar on Managing Life's Paradoxes

Missing Link in Practical Spirituality
Facticity's "No More This Or That" seminar will address the natural
frustration of connecting the spiritual with everyday life and will show you
how to merge the two in a practical way and without falling into
self-criticism for the situation. "The newly funded studies will
go a long way towards illuminating these dynamics and providing insights to
the benefit of humanity.

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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.

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, Seattle, 98109). 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 .

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

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Email ragini@facticity.

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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.net.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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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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com or
call 425-462-4369 to register .com. 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.
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.

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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."
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.

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About Facticity Wisdom School
The Facticity Wisdom School helps seekers of inner peace and spiritual
solutions find compassion for themselves as they come to awareness and
acceptance of change and unresolvable dilemmas. For more information, go to
http: //www.
"It is essential in today's world that scholars take seriously the broader
significance of spiritual capital," says Sargeant.
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.

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newscom. Metanexus sponsors dialogue groups, lectures,
workshops , research, courses, grants, and publications.

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Sargeant, the director of the Spiritual Capital Research
Program based at the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. 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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Ten Grants of $150 000 Each Awarded for Research on 'Spiritual Capital' By Metanexus Institute

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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.org

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The seminar, led by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels and Narayana Granitelli,
Principals of the Facticity Wisdom School, is designed for people who find
that their spiritual side seems to be out of touch with their daily life, and
that old patterns continue to re-appear again and again. PHILADELPHIA, Ten grants of $150,000 each for
high-level research in the emerging field of "Spiritual Capital" have been
announced by Kimon H. 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."
Since then, social scientists have vigorously debated the concept of
social capital, but spiritual capital - a sub-set of the field - remains
relatively understudied.

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Registration: $475
(early -bird registration by March 30th: $425). "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.

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