History · Boston College
Formerly Modern Atlantic Worlds This course is a continuation of Atlantic Worlds I, but with new thematic impulses. The course looks at: 1.) The Enlightenment and its challenges to religion; 2.) The rise of the teleological ideology of Marxism/Leninism and its political properties in relation to religion, race, and the state; 3.) European colonial expansionism and its implementation in areas of the world where democratic values were becoming skewed over time; 4.) racial thinking and the role of the churches in the 20th century as eugenic movements swept through various sections of the democrac
