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America's Church

The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

by Thomas A. Tweed

  • Hardback
  • 408 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.7 cm

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The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around six themes that characterize U.S. Catholicism, and he ties these themes to the Shrine's material culture--to images, artifacts, or devotional spaces. Thus he begins with the Basilica's foundation stone, weaving it into a discussion of "brick and mortar" Catholicism, the drive to build institutions. To highlight the Church's inclination to appeal to women, he looks at fund-raising for the Mary Memorial Altar, and he focuses on the Filipino oratory to Our Lady of Antipolo to illustrate the Church's outreach to immigrants. Throughout, he employs painstaking detective work to shine a light on the many facets of American Catholicism reflected in the shrine.
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Crossing And DwellingAmerica's Church

  • Author

    Thomas A. Tweed

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    July 2011

  • Weight

    668g

  • Page Count

    408

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199782987

  • ISBN-10

    0199782989

  • Eden Code

    4024370

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