Tag Archives: Europe

Higher education in the British Atlantic world

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Bookworm

The Universities of Scotland, Ireland and New England during the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries (Boydell Press, 2024), written by Boston College alumnus Salvatore Cipriano, provides new insight into the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world … Continue reading →

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Pope Benedict and German Enlightenment

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Bookworm

The lifelong engagement of Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) with the German Enlightenment and its contemporary manifestations and heirs is the subject of a new book written by Fr. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai, who recently earned a doctorate in philosophy from … Continue reading →

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Award for Laurence

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Bookworm

Congratulations to Boston College Associate Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence, whose book The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration was honored with the 2013 Hubert Morken Award for the best publication on religion and politics by … Continue reading →

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World History Association Book Prize

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Bookworm

Professor of History Prasannan Parthasarathi has won the 2012 World History Association Book Prize for his work, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850. The WHA, considered the foremost organization for the promotion of world history … Continue reading →

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Inaugural Chautauqua Prize winner

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Bookworm

College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program faculty member Andrew Krivak’s novel The Sojourn, already a 2011 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, has been named the inaugural winner of  the Chautauqua Prize, a new national literary prize that celebrates … Continue reading →

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Muslims in Europe

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Bookworm

 The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration, a new book by Boston College Associate Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence, traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in … Continue reading →

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