Berkley Center

Senior Fellow José Casanova spoke with Research Fellow Eric Patterson, executive vice president of the Religious Freedom Institute, about the religious dynamics in Ukraine, particularly the multidimensionality of religious freedom in Ukraine, amidst the current crisis.

In the first of a two-part series on ABC National Radio's The Religion and Ethics Report, Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari discusses what Russian President Vladimir Putin sees as a divine mission to restore the ancient territory of the 'Holy Rus,' with the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as the 'Third Rome.'

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On March 4 Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Susan Hayward will moderate a conversation to assess the normative frameworks that shape how U.S. foreign policy thinks about the role of religion in world affairs and consider how religion can be reimagined in policy and activist responses to meet the challenges of the present day. The event is sponsored by Harvard Divinity School.

Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova is quoted extensively in an NPR article discussing Putin's claim of fighting against "neo-Nazis" in Ukraine.