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July 4, 2019
In his "last word on secularization" José Casanova offers a global historical perspective that integrates European theories of modern secularization and competing theories of global religious revival as interrelated dynamics. The essay was originally published in the inaugural edition of Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics.
related | Essay Overview on the Berkley Forum
July 2, 2019
At the 2019 G20 Interfaith Forum on “Peace, People, Planet: Pathways Forward,” participants discussed global issues including children and refugees, climate, corruption, education, and health for all. Berkley Center Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall was a member of the organizing committee.
July 1, 2019
Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari is the editor-in-chief of a new journal that will bring scholars of political science and religious studies together.
June 30, 2019
José Casanova's landmark book Public Religions in the Modern World celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2019. The book reevaluates the theory of secularization in light of the global resurgence of religion during the four decades prior to 1994, focusing on the phenomenon of “deprivatization,” or religious re-engagement in the public sphere.
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February 5, 2025
Berkley Center Research Fellow Rev. Gerald J. McGlone, S.J., has been quoted in an article by Religion News Service about recent abuse cases within Anglican denominations.
February 4, 2025
Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky joined Mark Noll and James Patterson on the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss his new book American Heretics (2024).
January 6, 2025
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.
December 13, 2024
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.
