Berkley Center

Writing for the World Economic Forum, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall highlights how fraying global safety nets and rapid tech shifts threaten vulnerable populations. Drawing on Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical, Marshall calls on policy leaders to integrate religious teachings into global governance to ensure progress serves the common good.

As a new Ebola outbreak poses severe challenges across the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and internaitonal health organizations are turning to religious leaders to rebuild trust. Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall and coauthor Olivia Wilkinson show how religious leaders leverage community ties to halt the spread of the virus.

Several fellows from the Berkley Center, including John Borelli, José Casanova, Jocelyne Cesari, Leo Lefebure, Peter Mandaville, Peter Phan, and Debora Tonelli, recently traveled to the European Academy of Religion's Ninth Annual Conference, exploring the theme "Religion and (In)Equalities." 

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Becky Yang Hsu and coauthor Liu Zhuang examine how people in China understand and engage in spiritual practices involving souls and spirits. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, they consider how relationships, experiences, and different forms of belief shape people's engagement with these practices.