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<br> The Basilica of the National Shrine competes for attention on the Washington skyline with more familiar monuments, but it always stands out. Tweed masterfully explores its deep religious and cultural meanings for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. -- James M. O'Toole, Clough Chair in History Boston College <br><p><br> America's Church is a work of extraordinary erudition and methodological sophistication. Using the history of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as a lens for viewing the vast--and vastly complex--landscape of 20th century American Catholic culture, Tweed considers themes as diverse as architecture, iconography, gender, childhood, ethnicity, pilgrimage, philanthropy, and soteriology. He combines a journalist's eye for the telling detail with a scholar's ability to discern trends and patterns that truly matter. And all of it presented in prose as clear as it is elegant. -- Grant Wacker, Professor of Christian History, Duke University <br><p><br> This is

The Basilica of the National Shrine competes for attention on the Washington skyline with more familiar monuments, but it always stands out. Tweed masterfully explores its deep religious and cultural meanings for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. -- James M. O'Toole, Clough Chair in History Boston College America's Church is a work of extraordinary erudition and methodological sophistication. Using the history of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as a lens for viewing the vast--and vastly complex--landscape of 20th century American Catholic culture, Tweed considers themes as diverse as architecture, iconography, gender, childhood, ethnicity, pilgrimage, philanthropy, and soteriology. He combines a journalist's eye for the telling detail with a scholar's ability to discern trends and patterns that truly matter. And all of it presented in prose as clear as it is elegant. -- Grant Wacker, Professor of Christian History, Duke University This is an astonishingly innovative and detailed examination of a building and the presences--tangible and intangible, saintly and human, lay and ordained, male and female, young and old--that are enshrined there. The book exemplifies many things we have come to expect of the author: a clear, easily accessible prose style; a wide-ranging analysis backed by extensive footnotes; and an eye for how the particular can illuminate large questions. Tweed provides a way forward for scholars of Catholicism in the U.S. who recognize that the old top down narrative is inadequate, but have yet to come up with a way to suggest the complexity of the whole. --Ann Taves, Virgil Cordano OFM Professor of Catholic Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara America's Church: The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital is a significant work of historical scholarship that exposed the monumental tasks that accompanied not only the building of a Cath

The Basilica of the National Shrine competes for attention on the Washington skyline with more familiar monuments, but it always stands out. Tweed masterfully explores its deep religious and cultural meanings for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. * James M. O'Toole, Clough Chair in History Boston College *

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Thomas A. Tweed is Shive, Lindsay, and Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

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