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Kimon Sargeant
Conference
Co-Director
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Kimon Sargeant is Vice President
of Human Sciences at the  John
Templeton
Foundation. His responsibilities include developing new research
initiatives in
the areas of religion and spirituality in the human sciences, character
education, and the role of free enterprise solutions in alleviating
poverty. He
developed the Spiritual Capital Research Program, a nearly $4 million
request-for-proposals competition to spur new research on the economic
and
social consequences of religion. In addition, Dr. Sargeant helped
launch in
partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies a new $9 million purpose
in
retirement prize program that will promote a new vision for “giving
back” in
retirement. He serves as Co-Executive Editor of In Character: A
Journal of
Everyday Virtues. Sargeant received his doctorate in sociology
from the
University of Virginia and his B.A. in history from Yale University. He
is the
author of Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a
Nontraditional Way (Rutgers University Press, 2000). |
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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