Asian Catholicism and Globalization
Guest Speaker: Prof Jos茅 Casanova
Prof Jos茅 Casanova (Georgetown University) will be discussing his recent co-edited publication on Asian Catholicism. Prof Casanova, author of the landmark study Public Religions in the Modern World, is internationally renowned for his work on religion, secularization and globalization.
Jos茅 Casanova is professor emeritus at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center. He has published works on a broad range on religion and globalization, politics and religion, and transnational religions and migration. His works include, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective, (with J. Cesari, 2017), Religious and Secular Dynamics in Our Global Age (2017). Jesuits and Globalization, (with T. Banchoff, 2016), and Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization (with P. Phan, 2023). In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology.
