
Thomas Banchoff
Areas of Expertise:
Ethical and religious issues in world politics, including pluralism, diplomacy, and the role of the Catholic Church
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Areas of Expertise:
Ethical and religious issues in world politics, including pluralism, diplomacy, and the role of the Catholic Church
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Religion and globalization (particularly the Catholic Church/Jesuits), migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, sociological theory
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Religion in U.S. foreign policy and international politics, ethics and political theology, role of religion in American presidential politics
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Islam, Middle Eastern and world politics, political Islam, violence and peace, religion and gender in politics
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Nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, ecumenical public advocacy, religion and climate change, the Catholic Church and China
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Intersection of religion with literature, art, music, film, and culture; the Catholic Church in the United States
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Human rights, refugees and migration, ethics, Catholicism and religious freedom, Catholics in public life and U.S./international politics, Catholic social thought, political and public theology
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Theology, philosophical and religious ethics, law and religion (globally and in the U.S. constitutional context)
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Religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world, political Islam, Middle East, Islam in Europe and the United States
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Global development (especially Africa, South Asia, and Latin America), religion and gender, peacebuilding and dialogue
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October 29, 2020
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October 7, 2020
Catholics Commemorate 75 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 3, 2020