Berkley Center

During the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in November 2019, Director Shaun Casey participated in a panel discussion about how best to provide policymakers with contextual information on issues pertaining to religion, which was part of the Council on Foreign Relations' Religion and Foreign Policy Program. Audio and a full transcript of the session are now available.

In a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes that the conflict between progressives and traditionalists in the Catholic Church has hardened around the two popes and tipped toward an open dispute with the publication of a book on priestly celibacy.

Writing for the Immanent Frame, Jocelyne Cesari proposes the systematic utilization of the belief-behave-belong triad. She then demonstrates why qualitative research on Muslims in different contexts can illustrate how to better understand religiosity through a focus on the interactions between these three elements.

At his February 17 Christus Lecture at Spring Hill College, Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., will discuss the duty to provide asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, as well as how we share in the responsibility to assist refugees with the poor countries hosting most of the world’s displaced people.