| Author |
Tweed, Thomas A.
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| Subject |
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Washington (D.C.) -- Church history -- 20th century.
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| Add Title |
America's church : the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic presence in the nation's capital |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 391 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Laying Catholicism's foundation: clerical aims and diverse devotees, 1909-1959 -- Mobilizing "America's Marys": women, fundraising, and the Mary memorial altar, 1913-1938 -- Engaging Catholic children: agency, prescriptions, and constraints in the Catholic institutional network, 1920-1959 -- Contesting Protestant interpretations: the Virgin Mary, the crypt church, and the incorporeal other, 1913-1932 -- Claiming civic space: the National Shrine, the subjunctive mood, and the nation's capital, 1913-1959 -- Incorporating Catholic immigrants: diversity, migration, and the Shrine's columns and chapels, 1913-1997. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Thomas Tweed shows that the National Shrine is an illuminating site from which to tell the story of 20th-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around themes that characterize U.S. Catholicism and ties these themes to the Shrine's material culture: to images, artifacts and devotional spaces. |
| ISBN |
9780199783014 (electronic bk.) |
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0199783012 (electronic bk.) |
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0199897387 |
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9780199897384 |
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9780199782987 |
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0199782989 |
| OCLC # |
746925539 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Tweed, Thomas A. America's church. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199782987 (DLC) 2010041242 (OCoLC)667874046. |
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