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

by Thomas A. Tweed

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199782989
• ISBN13: 9780199782987
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"