Berkley Center

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.

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.

Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova offered a keynote lecture on "The Jesuits, Globalization, and Our Historical Juncture" at a May 24 conference in Rome on the past and future of Jesuit global engagement, held to celebrate the centennial of Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville discusses how the death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, has impacted Egyptian society in the New York Times.