UPCOMING EVENTS
February 13, 2012
Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 15, 2012
Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2011 Report Launch and 2012 Call for Applications
March 1, 2012
Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
April 11, 2012
Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
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March 3, 2010
Report of the Georgetown Symposium on Proselytism & Religious Freedom in the 21st Century
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Religion and US Foreign Policy
Both the practice and analysis of US foreign policy has traditionally marginalized religious questions. With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, the Berkley Center explores the role of rel...
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February 7, 2012
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February 6, 2012
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February 3, 2012
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February 2, 2012
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February 1, 2012
Call for Applications: Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2012
February 1, 2012
Catholic News Agency Quotes RFP Director Tom Farr on the Obama Administration's Stance Towards Religious Freedom
January 30, 2012
Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths
January 27, 2012
Between Culture and Religion: The Case of Female Genital Cutting
January 23, 2012
RFP Scholar Will Inboden on the Obama Administration and Religious Freedom
January 10, 2012
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
January 9, 2012
RFP Director Tom Farr Quoted in The Globe and Mail Editorial
March 3, 2010
Proselytism and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century
In the context of a globalizing world marked by the freer flow of people and ideas, proselytism has become increasingly controversial. On March 3, 2010, the Berkley Center sponsored a day-long symposium on proselytism and religious freedom in the 21st century. Experts from a variety of scholarly and policy fields investigated the theological, legal, and political implications of the missionary impulse.
>> Tom Farr video blog on proselytism
>> Report on the conference
8:30 am - 8:55 am: Light breakfast available
9:00 am: Welcome: Thomas Banchoff, Director, Berkley Center
9:05 am - 10:20 am: Proselytism as Religious Duty
Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention
Imam Mohamed Magid, All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center
Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
Moderator: Timothy Samuel Shah, Boston University
10:20 - 10:30: Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: The Political Implications of Proselytism
Salam Al-Marayati, Muslim Political Action Committee
Leah Daughtry, House of Lord Church, Washington, DC
Matthew Richards, Brigham Young University
Moderator: Eric Patterson, Berkley Center
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Buffet Lunch
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm: Keynote Debate: Proselytism Pros and Cons
Jose Casanova, Georgetown and the Berkley Center
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Moderator: Thomas Farr, Berkley Center
1:45 - 2:00: Break
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm: The Legal and Social Dimensions of Proselytism
Robert Woodberry, University of Texas
Roger Finke, Penn State
Angela Wu, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Moderator: Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma
>> Report on the conference
8:30 am - 8:55 am: Light breakfast available
9:00 am: Welcome: Thomas Banchoff, Director, Berkley Center
9:05 am - 10:20 am: Proselytism as Religious Duty
Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention
Imam Mohamed Magid, All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center
Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
Moderator: Timothy Samuel Shah, Boston University
10:20 - 10:30: Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: The Political Implications of Proselytism
Salam Al-Marayati, Muslim Political Action Committee
Leah Daughtry, House of Lord Church, Washington, DC
Matthew Richards, Brigham Young University
Moderator: Eric Patterson, Berkley Center
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Buffet Lunch
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm: Keynote Debate: Proselytism Pros and Cons
Jose Casanova, Georgetown and the Berkley Center
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Moderator: Thomas Farr, Berkley Center
1:45 - 2:00: Break
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm: The Legal and Social Dimensions of Proselytism
Robert Woodberry, University of Texas
Roger Finke, Penn State
Angela Wu, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Moderator: Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma
Featuring
Thomas Farr
Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A former American diplomat and leading authority on international religious freedom, Farr has published widely, including "Diplomacy in an Age of Faith" in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2008), and World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security (Oxford University Press, 2008). Farr received his BA in history from Mercer University, and his Ph.D. in modern British and European history from the University of North Carolina.
Participants
Salam Al-Marayati
Salam Al-Marayati is the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. He is a frequent public speaker on Islamic and interfaith issues, as well as democracy, human rights, and conflict in the Middle East, Balkans, and Transcaucasia, a...
Gerard Bradley
Gerard V. Bradley, a noted scholar in the fields of constitutional law as well as law and religion, joined the faculty of the Notre Dame Law School as professor in 1992, having taught at the University of Illinois from 1983 to 1992. With Professor...
José Casanova
José Casanova is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has pub...
Leah Daughtry
Reverend Leah Daughtry is the pastor of the House of the Lord Church in Washington, DC, and has been a key leader in the Democratic Party's burgeoning outreach to faith communities, a fact recognized in 2006 when Religion News Service named her on...
Thomas Farr
Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Ser...
Roger Finke
Roger Finke is a Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include Sociology of Religion, Organizations, Comparative an...
Allen Hertzke
Allen Hertzke is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He has written extensively on religious advocacy in politics, and in particular faith-motivated activism in foreign policy. He is the author of Freeing...
Richard Land
Richard Land has served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. Land has also served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a prolific author and host of the radio shows...
Mohamed Magid
Imam Mohamed Magid serves as the Imam and Executive Director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center in Sterling, VA. Born in Sudan as the son of the Mufti of Sudan, Magid mastered several disciplines in the Islamic faith from the tea...
Eric Patterson
Eric Patterson, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. His research and teaching focuses on religion and politics, ethics and inter...
Randi L. Rashkover
Randi L. Rashkover is an assistant professor in the religious studies department of George Mason University whose areas of interest include Jewish philosophy, Jewish-Christian theological relations, and Jewish feminist thought. She previously tau...
Matthew Richards
Matthew Richards is an attorney and shareholder with Kirton & McConkie, working in the Constitutional, Religious, & Appellate Practice Section. He has experience advising and litigating on regulatory compliance, electronic discovery and records m...
Timothy Shah
Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious
Freedom Project at the Berkley Center For Religion, Peace, and World
Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Government Department,
Georgetown University. He is a political scie...
Robert Woodberry
Robert Woodberry is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and an adjunct professor with the Departments of Religious Studies and Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation. His research explores the effects ...
Angela Wu
Angela Wu is the International Law Director of the Becket Fund. She has worked on cases before UN tribunals, the US Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and domestic courts in numerous countries. She serves on the governing Bureau of...
