Plainsong chanting, tai chi, and a community-based arts-related Christian practice will be evaluated for how they each deliver wellbeing benefits via various causal pathways identified through Interacting Cognitive Subsystems theory.
This resource (a public-facing learning report PDF) distills the lived experience of 17 scientist–practitioner teams funded through the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises (SoRSE) initiative; teams studying practices like fasting, prayer, group singing, meditation stances, confession, lament, Shabbat dinners, and more, across multiple religious traditions.
This project is an ambitious, ecumenical research initiative exploring how spiritual maturity, character, and virtue are formed across diverse Christian traditions and cultural contexts.