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Peter Mandaville

July 23, 2019

The Search for Contextualized Islam in Europe and North America

On August 24 Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville will speak about gender, shifting attitudes towards established ideological and theological trends in Islam, and the changing nature of religious authority as part of the Globalized Muslim World Lecture Series sponsored by the University of Edinburgh's Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.

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July 19, 2019

Bioethics Pioneer Daniel Callahan Dies at 88

Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., reflects in America online about the legacy of Daniel Callahan, an independent scholar who turned over new ground at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law, and religion.

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January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.

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December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

In "The Right to Bury Their Dead," Minahil Mahmud (SFS'25) examines the challenges faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mandated in April 2020 that all victims of COVID-19 would be cremated, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

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