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May 12, 2014

The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State


In a new book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim­-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey—countries that were founded by secular rulers and have since undergone secularized politics.

April 29, 2014

Berkley Center Part of Renewed Catholic Effort on Nuclear Disarmament


Forty bishops, scholars, and experts including Drew Christiansen, S.J., explored policy and moral challenges involved in moving toward a world without nuclear weapons. The colloquium was the kickoff to a larger project designed to empower a new generation to address this issue.

April 28, 2014

A Fundamental Fight


Paul Elie, 25 years after the fatwa against The Satanic Verses, speaks with Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Ian McEwan, and others about the book and the controversy and discussion it caused around the world.

resource | The Satanic Verses controversy

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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.

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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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