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America's Church

By Tweed, Thomas A

America's Church

By Tweed, Thomas A

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
404
Release Date:
2011-06-28
Publication Date:
2011-06-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199782989
ISBN13:
9780199782987
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
843 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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