Up to $3.5 million in grants for centers and individual scholars to conduct social science research on Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union is being offered by the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI).
The funds will support social science research on Pentecostalism and charismatic expressions of Christianity. PCRI will select and award up to seven grants to regional centers and fifteen grants to individual scholars or small research teams. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation and administered by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, this initiative is intended to provide a scholarly framework to investigate Pentecostalism and the various renewal movements that have emerged in Roman Catholicism
and mainline Protestantism.
The grants will be distributed as follows: Regional Center grants: up to $500,000; individual grants: up to $100,000 for scholars, doctoral students, and small research teams. The deadline for Letters of Intent is August 1, 2009.
For more information visit www.usc.edu/PCRI [1].