The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs is an academic research center at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

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dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

, and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

. The center was founded in 2006 under a gift from William R. Berkley, a member of Georgetown's Board of Directors.International Insurance Societ
William Berkley biographical sketch
Page accessed August 12, 2015Berkley Center profile at IGG
Page accessed August 12, 2015 The center's founding director is Thomas Banchoff.

Senior Fellows

Senior Research Fellows

Faculty Fellows

Research Fellows

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* Georgetown University programs Religious studies Religion and society in the United States Freedom of religion {{reli-org-stub