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America's Church

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

by Thomas A. Tweed

    • Author

      Thomas A. Tweed

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      July 2011

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      Product Description

      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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      • Author

        Thomas A. Tweed

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        July 2011

      • Weight

        668g

      • Page Count

        408

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 27 mm

      • ISBN

        9780199782987

      • ISBN-10

        0199782989

      • Eden Code

        4024370

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      • Author/Creator: Thomas A. Tweed

      • ISBN: 9780199782987

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: July 2011

      • Weight: 668g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 27 mm

      • Eden Code: 4024370

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