Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

 
Boisi Center Highlights
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Boston College Law School Dean Delivers Talk on Citizenship in the Global City

Listen to the audio from a March 2012 lunch colloquium on Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing in East London. Vincent Rougeau is Dean and Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.

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Photos from the 11th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture

View photos from the 11th Annual Prophetic Voices lecture entitled Religious Exclusivism and Pluralism as a Political Project. Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, delivered the talk.

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Video and Remarks from Jonathan Ebel and Fr. Richard Erikson on Religion and the U.S. Military

Read Jonathan Ebel's remarks from a February 2012 panel about the religious dynamics and cultural assumptions that shape the lives of American soldiers. Jonathan Ebel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Fr. Richard Erikson (U.S. Air Force) discussed what it means to fight for God and country. Watch the video.

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An Interview with Tzvetan Todorov on the Totalitarian Experience

Read the transcript of an interview with Tzvetan Todorov on the totalitarian experience. A French-Bulgarian philosopher, theorist and literary critic, Todorov gave a talk in October of 2011 entitled "Pelagius and Augustine: A Contemporary Take on an Ancient Controversy."

Updates
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Our 2011-2012 Newsletter is now online.

 

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The Center is hiring one undergraduate research assistant for the 2012-2013 academic year.

9/11 Online and On Campus
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The Boisi Center fosters conversations that seek to clarify the moral consequences of public policies in ways that help to maintain the common good while respecting America's increasing religious diversity.             
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