Research
- Affordable Housing and Community Development
- The Child, in Law, Religion, and Society
- Christian Legal Studies
- Christian Jurisprudence II
- Islamic Legal Studies
- Jewish Legal Studies
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- The Vocabulary of Happiness and Love in Christianity
- Darwinian Approaches to Understanding Social Virtues Such as Forgiveness and Gratitude
- Imagining Human Flourishing: Good and Evil in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
- Giving to Others as a Source of Happiness for the Agent from the Perspectives of Psychology, Ethics, and Theology; Unselfed Love and the Happiness Effect
- Feeling Good, Doing Good, and Living Well: Evolutionary Perspectives on Eudaimonia
- The Pursuit of Happiness in the Face of Pain: Interpersonal Forgiveness, Well-Being, and Unselfish Love at the Intersection of Science and Religion
- Law, Religion, and Human Rights
- Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book
The Pursuit of Happiness
Project Description
Most famously formulated in the American Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness" theme is an ancient and enduring Western ideal grounded in various Hebrew, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Enlightenment sources. Recent developments in positive psychology have brought the idea of happiness back to public attention with a flurry of books and undergraduate courses. By putting religion and science in conversation, and by focusing on the relation between altruistic love and happiness, our project will retrieve some of the rich traditional teachings captured in this ideal and reconstruct them for our day in light of the new findings of the human and social sciences and of the new liberties of constitutional democracies.
Project Accomplishments
- Roundtable, October 13-15, 2006
- Roundtable, April 20-22, 2007
- Roundtable, October 12-14, 2007
- Roundtable, April 11-13, 2008
- Roundtable, April 17-19, 2009
- Roundtable, October 16-18, 2009
- Roundtable, April 16-18, 2010
Sponsors
The John Templeton Foundation and an anonymous donor
Directors
Senior Advisors
CSLR Participants
- Julia E. Annas
- John R. Bowlin
- Michael J. Broyde
- Sidney Callahan
- Ellen T. Charry
- W. Edward Craighead
- Robyn L. Fivush
- Eric S. Gregory
- Carl R. Holladay
- Corey L.M. Keyes
- Michael E. McCullough
- Carol A. Newsom
- Stephen J. Pope
- Jeffrey P. Schloss
- Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet
Project Publications
Projects in the News
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Christianity and Law Book is Best Seller
October 20 2009 -
Richard Garnett Speaks about Supreme Court, Constitutional Law on YouTube
October 06 2009 -
Children get Spotlight in New Book about World Religions
October 05 2009 -
New Book Seeks to Explain Methodist's Doctrine in Experience
September 21 2009 -
New Book Explores Competing Paradigms in Children's Rights
September 21 2009 -
Broyde Receives Grant for Study on Husbands Missing Since 9/11
September 18 2009 -
Emory Magazine Explores Back Story of Witte's 'Sins' Book
August 13 2009 -
Broyde Comments on Ordaining Orthodox Women
July 29 2009 -
Worthington Wins National Advocacy Award
July 22 2009 -
Perry to Speak at Chile Student Congress
July 16 2009
In Their Own Words
"We learned that although they are religious and personal, marriage and family issues are often a lot like driving an automobile, meaning that you regulate them because there are big material, psychological, and health issues at stake. Philosophy and law have been concerned about these issues because if you let them fall apart big social issues emerge. "
–Don S. Browning