Berkley Center

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.

In this article for Religions Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari compares Israel and Turkey to demonstrate how religious nationalism can be analyzed by a combination of historical institutionalism and conceptual history of religious ideas and doctrines.

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., offered insight to America magazine on the dignity of the human person at the foundation of Catholic social teaching, which ought to guide our response to Central American migrants headed towards the United States.