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Paradoxes of Women's Equality in Bangladesh

May 18, 2015

Paradoxes of Women's Equality in Bangladesh

Katherine Marshall says that while Bangladeshi women have made progress in girls' education, the garment industry, and other fields, women often remain subordinate at the family level and in social norms. Challenges to women's full equality are often framed in religious terms.
Will the US Join a Religious War in the Gulf?

April 21, 2015

Will the US Join a Religious War in the Gulf?

Drew Christiansen, S.J. and Ra'fat Aldajani argue that while the United States has its own strategic reasons to be involved in Yemen and Iraq, it would be unwise for it to be drawn into a religious war.

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January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

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.

A family prays at a burial site as the sun comes down on a cloudy day

December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

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.

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