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May 15, 2023
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka, a senior research fellow for Jewish studies and Jewish-Christian relations at Georgetown University, received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Theology of the University of Trnava in Slovakia. Pope Francis then sent Skorka, his long-time friend, a letter to congratulate him and recall his commitment to interreligious dialogue, faith, and human rights.
May 10, 2023
Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari will moderate a May 11 book talk on Sikh Nationalism, discussing the Sikh case in a globalized world and the lessons it offers for the comparative study of ethnicity, nations, and nationalism. This event is part of the International Studies Association's religion and international relations book talk series.
May 9, 2023
Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville will deliver a May 10 lecture on "Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity" as part of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars series.
May 8, 2023
Published in SSM-Mental Health, this article by Senior Fellow Becky Yang Hsu and Roman Palitsky explores how continuing bonds may be maintained through the ritual of grave sweeping, which is part of the communal religion that is practiced by a majority of the population in China.
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January 6, 2025
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.
December 13, 2024
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.
December 2, 2024
Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky's book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order (2024) has been reviewed for outlets including Current, Law & Liberty, Lawfare, and Patheos.
November 26, 2024
A Religion News Service article quotes Research Fellow Brian Flanagan on the impact of Pope Francis' support for the final report from the Synod on Synodality, the Catholic Church's recently concluded three-year consultation process.
