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