Berkley Center

Writing for the Hoya, Ella Budenbender covers the October 11 panel on “Competing Understanding of Islamic Codes Pertaining to Women in the Arab World." Co-sponsored by the Berkley Center and Georgetown's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, this event contextualized different understandings of how Islamic teaching pertains to women’s behavior.

Senior Fellow José Casanova will join Charles Taylor for an October 20 dialogue at McGill University's School of Religious Studies on the complex and evolving place of faith, secularity, and the public sphere and the challenges facing religious and political actors in the twenty-first century.

Writing for the Washington Post, Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., discusses the context of Pope Francis' Synod on Synodality session that began in Rome last week. He quotes Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., and cites Director Thomas Banchoff's recent essay on the synod and encounter in the Tablet.

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari joined an episode of the Fighting Terror podcast, sponsored by the Countering Extremism Project, to discuss the concept of blasphemy in Islamic theology, its historical roots, and how some Islamist extremist groups use blasphemy to further their agendas and mobilize followers, as well as the implications for societal cohesion.