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June 28, 2011

New Book on the Global Politics of Human Rights

Oxford University Press has just published "Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights," co-edited by Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow. The volume is the third in a series based on major conferences held at the Center.

June 23, 2011

Timothy Shah at the Alexander Hamilton Society

On June 19, 2011, Timothy Shah spoke to the Alexander Hamilton Society about the surge in religion's political influence virtually all parts of the world have witnessed since the 1950s and 1960s—halting and even reversing what seemed an unstoppable wave of political secularism.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

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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