The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life is an important interdisciplinary research center of Boston College, committed to exploring the deep connection between religious culture, social ethics, public opinion orientation and national public policy in modern society. It breaks the single disciplinary boundary and integrates research perspectives of sociology, politics, theology and cultural studies to carry out in-depth academic exploration.
The core research fields include the influence of religious ideas on social public decision-making, the integration and conflict of diverse religious cultures in multicultural society, the role of religious groups in public welfare and social relief, and the change trend of religious concepts in modern diversified social environment. Researchers focus on combining real social events and public hot topics to conduct empirical analysis, making academic research close to social reality.
The center invites scholars from different religious backgrounds and different academic fields to carry out joint discussions all year round, and holds open academic forums to promote rational dialogue and equal exchanges between different cultural and religious concepts. It has a large number of academic followers among overseas researchers engaged in religious culture research, social ethics research and multicultural social governance research, and its research achievements provide important theoretical references for solving multicultural social coordination problems in many regions around the world.
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Website(https://www.bc.edu/boisi-center)
