Call for Applications: David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality

Call for Applications: David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality Deadline: April 17 •Research on the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health •Open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a doctoral degree conferred prior to April 15 •Stipend: $4,200 per month (6 to 12 months) Further information: John W. Kluge Center phone: [phone] fax: [phone] email: [e-mail] The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. Made possible by a generous endowment from the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality (ICIHS), the fellowship is named in honor of the Center's late founder, David B. Larson, an epidemiologist and psychiatrist, who focused on potentially relevant but understudied factors which might help in prevention, coping, and recovering from illness. The fellowship is designed to continue Dr. Larson's legacy of promoting meaningful, scholarly study of these two important and increasingly interrelated fields. It seeks to encourage the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of Congress, through full-tim...

Source: ScanGrants feed - February 20, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Library of Congress Source Type: funding