Berkley Center

Bernard “Bernie” Adeney-Risakotta is professor of Religion and Social Science and founding director and international representative at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies in the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He also teaches at Duta Wacana Christian University, State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, and Muhamadiyah Yogyakarta University. From 1982 until 1991 Adeney-Risakotta taught at the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, and he has since lived and taught in Indonesia. Among his many publications are Just War, Political Realism and Faith (1988), Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World (1995), Dealing with Diversity: Religion, Globalization, Violence, Gender and Disasters in Indonesia (2013), and Visions of a Good Society in Southeast Asia (in press, 2015). Adeney-Risakotta holds degrees in Asian Studies from University of Wisconsin, in Theology and Asian Religions and Ethics from the University of London, and in Religion & International Politics from the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley with University of California, Berkeley.