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Promoting Greater Human Wellbeing: Interacting the Happiness Hypothesis and Religion

促进更大的人类福祉：幸福假说与宗教的相互作用

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F007833/1
负责人：
Elaine Graham
金额：
$ 2.99万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF007833%2F1
关键词：
Promoting Greater Human Wellbeing Interacting

项目摘要

Modern capitalist societies have been astonishingly successful in promoting economic growth with all that means for increasing standards of living. These achievements are now beginning to be shared by leading emerging economies. Yet research across nations and disciplines is now regularly suggesting that this increasing prosperity has not been accompanied by increasing happiness or wellbeing. Indeed, the opposite has often been the case in terms of major growth in crime, mental illness, and family breakdowns, and declining trust in neighbourhoods and volunteering. This predicament of increasing wealth but not increasing happiness is often referred to as the paradox of prosperity.The happiness hypothesis is a key entrypoint into these debates, is of growing significance, and involves research from such disciplines as economics, economic history, psychology and sociology. Essentially, it recognises that increasing individual annual incomes above $20,000 p.a. is not commensurate with increasing happiness at all. Above that sum, other existing features of happiness become far more important, including personal relationships, family life and friendships, shared trust in neighbourhoods, and questions of morality and philosophy or purpose of life (including religion). The cumulative effect of all these features propels this whole debate into the centre of religious traditions and experiences. Yet the actual contribution of religion to this debate is under-researched, even though the current secular research clearly recognises the importance of religious wellbeing for happiness.The proposal will therefore seek to develop the religious contribution to the happiness hypothesis by bringing together a network of scholars and reflective practitioners, principally British, but including Swedish and US. They will engage with and debate the key features and indices revealed by the existing happiness research (including the nature and importance of work, income, mental health and spirituality, spiritual capital and globalisation, values and virtues, ethics and justice, inequalities, fair trade, religious finance as Muslim tradition). The network will therefore seek to elaborate the nature and extent of religion's contributions to such features and indices, including the nature and extent of any added value provided by religion. These emerging findings will be tested in relation to mainstream economics, and by exploring appropriate measurement systems. The research network would seek to continue beyond the life of this proposal through further research applications which would build on these initial findings.

现代资本主义社会在通过提高生活水平的所有手段促进经济增长方面取得了惊人的成功。这些成就现在开始被主要新兴经济体分享。然而，跨国家和不同学科的研究现在经常表明，这种日益繁荣并没有伴随着越来越多的幸福感或福祉。事实上，在犯罪、精神疾病和家庭破裂的大幅增长以及对邻里关系和志愿服务的信任下降方面，情况往往恰恰相反。这种财富增加而幸福感不增加的困境通常被称为繁荣悖论。幸福假说是这些争论的一个关键切入点，意义日益重大，涉及经济学、经济史、心理学和社会学等学科的研究。从本质上讲，它认识到，增加个人年收入超过2万美元。与日益增长的幸福感根本不相称。除此之外，幸福的其他现有特征变得更加重要，包括个人关系、家庭生活和友谊、对邻居的共同信任，以及道德和哲学或生活目的(包括宗教)的问题。所有这些特点的累积效应将整个辩论推向了宗教传统和经验的中心。然而，宗教对这场辩论的实际贡献还没有得到充分的研究，尽管当前的世俗研究清楚地认识到宗教幸福对于幸福的重要性。因此，这项提议将寻求通过聚集一个学者和反思实践者的网络来发展宗教对幸福假说的贡献，这些学者和实践者主要是英国人，但包括瑞典和美国。他们将参与并讨论现有幸福研究揭示的关键特征和指数(包括工作的性质和重要性、收入、心理健康和灵性、精神资本和全球化、价值观和美德、伦理和正义、不平等、公平贸易、穆斯林传统的宗教金融)。因此，该网络将力求详细说明宗教对这些特征和指数的贡献的性质和程度，包括宗教提供的任何附加值的性质和程度。这些新发现将与主流经济学相关，并通过探索适当的衡量体系进行检验。研究网络将寻求通过在这些初步调查结果的基础上进行进一步的研究应用，在本提案的有效期内继续下去。