Category Archives: Boston College Authors

Academic excellence initiatives in higher ed

Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2023) is a new book of case studies on the global phenomenon of academic excellence initiatives and how they shape the performance of research universities. Academic excellence initiatives (AEIs)—special government-sponsored … Continue reading

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Auschwitz and Absolution

In the face of his 1947 execution, Rudolf Höss, the notorious commandant of Auschwitz, met with Polish Jesuit priest Wladyslaw Lohn, S.J. Höss made a confession to Fr. Lohn for approximately four hours, and received absolution. The new book, Auschwitz … Continue reading

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Political Rhetoric

Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2023), edited by Boston College Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies Robert Bartlett and Associate Professor of Political Science Nasser Behnegar, is an introduction to the art of rhetoric (persuasive speaking). … Continue reading

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New poetry from Pluto

How Many Miles to Babylon? (Lily Poetry Review, 2023) is a new poetry collection from Anne Elezabeth Pluto, a faculty member in the Woods College of Advancing Studies. Pluto ponders sorrow, grief, and endurance in what is described as “an … Continue reading

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Campus voices against violence

In Voices of Campus Sexual Violence Activists (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), BC Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor Ana M. Martínez-Alemán and co-author Susan B. Marine share the stories and strategies of college student activists fighting to … Continue reading

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Formative Theological Education

A new book from faculty members in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry offers a guide to the art of theological education from the perspective of formative education sensibilities and commitments. Formative Theological Education (Paulist Press, 2023), co-edited … Continue reading

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Disability justice

Persons with disability make up at least 15 percent of the global population, yet disability justice is an underdeveloped area of theological ethics, according to School of Theology and Ministry Professor of Moral Theology Mary Jo Iozzio, author of the … Continue reading

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Theological Book of the Year

Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE, a visiting assistant professor of systematic theology in the BC Theology Department, was awarded Theological Book of the Year by the European Society for Catholic Theology. She was honored for her book, Why the Cross? Divine Friendship … Continue reading

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In the air and on the sea, pollution goes under the radar

International shipping and aviation stand as two major sources of global greenhouse gas emissions not governed by national inventories and the U.N. Paris Climate agreement. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, regulating greenhouse gas emissions from these two industries has … Continue reading

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Rethinking Catholic theology

Harvey D. Egan, S.J., a professor emeritus in the Boston College Theology Department, has published a new book that provides readers with an intelligent, informed, critical grasp of the central truths of the Catholic/Christian tradition. Rethinking Catholic Theology: From the … Continue reading

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