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 ...
in
Washington, DC
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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, concerns m ...
, 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
William Robert Berkley (born 1946) is the founder and current chairman of W. R. Berkley Corporation and the chairman of the New York University Board of Trustees.
With a net worth of $4.4 billion he ranked 326th on the 2023 edition of the Forb ...
, a member of Georgetown's Board of Directors.
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William Berkley biographical sketch
Page accessed August 12, 2015[Berkley Center profile at IGG]
Page accessed August 12, 2015 The center's founding director is Thomas Banchoff.
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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
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