Thomas A Tweed: 3 books

Book cover of The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912

The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912

Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent

by Thomas A. Tweed
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005

In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact...
Book cover of Our Lady of the Exile

Our Lady of the Exile

Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami

by Thomas A. Tweed
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997

Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims...
Book cover of America's Church

America's Church

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

by Thomas A. Tweed
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

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...
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