New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia Data Management Plan

<p dir="ltr">This project explores under what conditions new religiosity can contribute to personal and societal well-being. Without understanding how specific variables and social dynamics around new religiosity promote or detract from human flourishing, decision making will continue to be largely based on prejudice, assumptions, and outlier examples. It is a partnership between the Open University (UK), The University of British Columbia (Canada) and the independent charity Inform, based at King’s College London (UK). This project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation (no. 63357) from 2025- 2027 and the co-PIs of this project are Suzanne Newcombe and Stephen Christopher.</p><p dir="ltr">This project will foster increased religious tolerance by unlocking the ability to representatively analyse variables within groups, and between groups and their host societies, which may contribute to or detract from human flourishing and eudaimonia. The project will create the world’s largest, most collaborative, epistemically diverse, open-access mixed data set on new religiosity. The resulting open access infrastructure will allow for new clusters of associations between variables relating to eudaimonia and better reflect the diversity of religiosity globally. This data set will provide an important new resource for researchers, policy makers, and individuals to enable more evidence based decisions about how to engage with new religiosity. </p>