{"id":79415,"date":"2019-03-19T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79415"},"modified":"2019-03-19T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:02:17","slug":"ap-dartmouth-professor-marcelo-gleiser-wins-top-religion-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79415","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser wins top religion prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dartmouth College professor of physics and astronomy was awarded one of the world\u2019s leading religion prizes for blending hard science and deep spirituality in his work, a foundation announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The John Templeton Foundation is awarding its 2019 prize to Marcelo Gleiser, who has written books on topics ranging from the origin of the universe to how science engages with spirituality. The Templeton Prize comes with a $1.4 million award.<\/p>\n<p>Gleiser, a 60-year-old Brazilian native, is the 49th recipient and the first from Latin America to get the award, which honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life\u2019s spiritual dimension. Previous winners include Mother Teresa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and King Abdullah II of Jordan. The award will be presented at a ceremony in New York City on May 29.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/0d91770cfd5e4524bf9511a85dd03ebd\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dartmouth professor wins top religion prize <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T2Zf7xmIqd\">https:\/\/t.co\/T2Zf7xmIqd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zeD3K0ZiXx\">pic.twitter.com\/zeD3K0ZiXx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BastilleGlobal (@BastilleGlobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BastilleGlobal\/status\/1107965009861042177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dartmouth College professor of physics and astronomy was awarded one of the world\u2019s leading religion prizes for blending hard science and deep spirituality in his work, a foundation announced Tuesday. The John Templeton Foundation is awarding its 2019 prize<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79415\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79418,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79415\/revisions\/79418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}