A Global Network of Collaboration
PRISM works in collaboration with scholars, institutions, and organizations around the world to support rigorous, interdisciplinary research on mysticism and mystical experience.
Our Partners
PRISM advances the academic study of mysticism through an international grant program supporting new cross-disciplinary research. Through its first round of funding, PRISM supports projects exploring new directions in the study of mysticism across institutions and scholarly traditions.
Phase I grants support two-year research projects. Templeton Religion Trust is committed to extending support to selected projects through a three-year Phase II, enabling longer-term investigation and collaboration.
The institutions below represent PRISM’s current grantees and research partners contributing to this growing field of inquiry.
Grantees (Phase 1)
Pompeu Fabra University
Center for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Theology
University of Michigan
Department of Middle East Studies
Södertörn University
Study of Religions
Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Psychology, Religion & Consciousness Program
Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society
At the Threshold
Friedrich Alexander University
Centre for Advanced Studies in Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective
University of Antwerp
Ruusbroec Institute
University of Münster
Department of Protestant Theology
Mystical Theology Network
Ca' Foscari University
Department of Asian and North African Studies
University of Hamburg
Institute for Jewish Studies
Amrita Wishwa Vidyapeetham University
School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Boston College
Theology Department
Ruhr University Bochum
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Elizabethtown College
Religious Studies Faculty
University of Southern California
School of Religion
Consultation Partners
University of Southern California
Department of Religious Studies
Tübingen University
RelBib Online Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies
Donner Institute for Religious and Cultural History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Jewish Thought
ThinkTheory Communications Group
Protestant Theological University
Leiden University
Psychedelic, Religious, Self-Transcendent and Mystical Experiences Lab
Ca' Foscari University
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Durham University
Centre for Catholic Studies
Giorgio Cini Foundation
Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations and Spiritualities
Regis College
Baylor University
Center for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture
Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation
Toronto School of Theology
University of Warmia and Mazury
Institute of Political Sciences
University of Fribourg
Department of Social Sciences
Dominican University College
Bruno Kessler Foundation
Centre for Religious Studies
Boston College
Department of Theology
Carleton University
Program in Religion
Advisory Committee
Dr. Durre S. Ahmed
Center for the Study of Gender & Culture, Lahore, Pakistan
Dr. Catherine Cornille
Boston College, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Stephen G. Post
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Dr. Thomas Cattoi
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome, Italy
William B. Parsons
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Dr. Kimon Sargeant
Templeton Religion Trust, Nassau, Bahamas
Templeton Religion Trust
PRISM is funded by the Templeton Religion Trust (TRT), whose support makes sustained, interdisciplinary research on mysticism and religious experience possible.
This funding enables long-term inquiry grounded in academic rigor, intellectual openness, and cross-cultural engagement.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University
PRISM is coordinated through the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University.
The coordinating organization provides administrative oversight, institutional infrastructure, and operational support, ensuring responsible stewardship, transparency, and accountability across the initiative.