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This year, we published nearly 300 essays addressing a wide range of issues—from religious freedom to nuclear disarmament to the fight for racial justice. Here is a brief selection of our work: https://twitter.com/GUberkleycenter/status/1344660228206456833
“Neo-Xenophobia and Religious Persecution in China” by @GroseTimothy, exploring CPC policies toward Uyghur Muslims through the lens of xenophobia https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/neo-xenophobia-and-religious-persecution-in-china
“Shepherd or Sheep? Religious Leadership in the Age of Trump” by @kkdumez, examining responses of evangelical leaders to the impeachment of President Trump https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/shepherd-or-sheep-religious-leadership-in-the-age-of-trump
“Beyond Conquest Narratives: Hagia Sophia, Past and Present” by @pdblessing & @ayayciog, providing historical context to the conversion of the Hagia Sophia from museum to mosque https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/beyond-conquest-narratives-hagia-sophia-past-and-present
“Expansive Love in a Borderless World: Nuclear Disarmament in Fraught Times” by @EmilyWelty, reflecting on interfaith activism to move toward a world free from nuclear weapons https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/expansive-love-in-a-borderless-world-nuclear-disarmament-in-fraught-times
“Unwilling Sacrifices: Anti-Blackness, Religion, and the Clearing” by @BikoMandelaGray, highlighting the theological and moral logic of anti-black racism in the U.S. https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/unwilling-sacrifices-anti-blackness-religion-and-the-clearing
“The Weaponization of Laïcité” by @RimSarah, exploring some of the recent controversies over secularism in France, with an eye toward French Muslim communities https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/posts/the-weaponization-of-laicite
“Seeing Beyond Walls in Fratelli Tutti: Can Catholics Preach What They Cannot Do?” by @JulieHRubio, providing a critical look at the gender dynamics in "Fratelli Tutti" and the Catholic Church https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/seeing-beyond-walls-in-fratelli-tutti-can-catholics-preach-what-they-cannot-do
“Religious Freedom’s Racial Reckoning” by @WFUProfWalker, underlining how U.S. religious freedom is built on a racial & religious logic that supported slavery and justified racial discrimination https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/religious-freedom-s-racial-reckoning
“Disability and the Politics of Vulnerability” by Julia Watts Belser, suggesting how religious communities can better support people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/disability-and-the-politics-of-vulnerability
“Balancing Religious Freedoms and Public Health Protections During the COVID-19 Pandemic” by @jghodgejr et al., highlighting how the right to free exercise can be limited to prevent harm https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/balancing-religious-freedoms-and-public-health-protections-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
“Amid Phantoms of Death: A Call for New Paradigms of Religious Response to Uprisings for Black Lives” by @cvtinsle, comparing religious leadership in the Civil Rights era to the more recent work of BLM activists https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/amid-phantoms-of-death-a-call-for-new-paradigms-of-religious-response-to-uprisings-for-black-lives
"A Climate Grief, Observed: Transforming Our Ecologies and Theologies of Magical Thinking" by @jacobjerickson, highlighting how COVID-related grief can be transformed into social & political action on climate change https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/a-climate-grief-observed-transforming-our-ecologies-and-theologies-of-magical-thinking
Read these and other excellent pieces at the intersection of religion & global affairs on the newly redesigned #BerkleyForum—and stay tuned for 2021! https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/forum
