Berkley Center

A research article published in PLOS One titled "Narratives and Counter-Narratives in Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Computational Text Analysis," cited a joint initiative led by Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall. The initiative, conducted by the Berkley Center, the World Faiths Development Dialogue, and the Joint Learning Initiative, cataloged and explored the responses of religious actors to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Senior Fellow José Casanova will join Nancy Ammerman for a conversation exploring how secularization impacts religion. The talk will be hosted by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College on April 5, 2022. 

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville has published an edited volume, Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam, with Oxford University Press. The book is a product of the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, hosted by the Berkley Center. 

Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., will speak at a February 8 panel on “Negotiations and Negotiators,” hosted by the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. The event will explore lessons learned from diplomacy for nuclear disarmament in the Latin American context.