Berkley Center

On November 11 Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., and Research Fellow Eric Patterson participated in a panel discussion at the Museum of the Bible on the topics of just war theory and peacemaking negotiations in relationship to the Bible.

speech transcript | "Seek Peace and Pursue It"

Religion is becoming a secondary concern for voters as American politics become more polarized, panelists concluded at a Berkley Center event analyzing religion in the 2018 midterm elections.

Published in Religions, in this article Senior Fellow José Casanova argues that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a longue durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization.

In this speech offered at the 20th International Conference of the Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation, co-sponsored by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Know Thy Heritage, Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., addresses the status of Jerusalem in the context of Christian-Muslim relations.