Sir John Templeton, the American-born investor and philanthropist who devoted his later life to funding the scientific study of religion, died July 8 at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. He was 95.

The Sundance Institute has unveiled a new partnership with Pennsylvania-based philanthropic organization the John Templeton Foundation that will increase the size of the annual granting pool for the ...

The philanthropist John M. Templeton, who supported scholarship on the “Big Questions” of science, religion, and human purpose, has died, his foundation announced. He was 95. The Templeton Foundation ...

A year ago, I faced an ethical dilemma. The John Templeton Foundation was inviting me to be one of the first batch of Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellows in Science and Religion. The 10 fellows ...

John Marks Templeton, who first made his mark as a pioneer international investor, is being remembered in religious circles for his commitment to the most prominent prize in religion: the annual ...

The Templeton Foundation has often described its principal grant-making interests using the expression “science and religion.” “No more,” says Pamela Thompson, Templeton’s vice president for ...

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.3 million over three years to continue and extend the Shamatha Project, the most comprehensive investigation yet conducted into the effects of ...

Promising an “uncompromising scientifically rigorous” approach, a professor of philosophy at the Univer­sity of California, Riverside, says he has received a three-year $5 million grant from the John ...

The $1.3-billion John Templeton Foundation may see its assets increase by 50 percent by the end of 2009, following the death this month of its founder, Sir John M. Templeton, the mutual-fund pioneer.

WASHINGTON — John M. Templeton Jr., a pediatric surgeon who left medicine behind to carry on his father’s passion for pursuing “new spiritual information” through the sciences as president and ...