America's church : the National Shrine and Catholic presence in the nation's capital

Publication Data

• Title America's church : the National Shrine and Catholic presence in the nation's capital
• Author Thomas A. Tweed
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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.

Topics

• National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.) :: History :: 20th century
• Washington (D.C.) :: Church history :: 20th century
• Washington (D.C.)

America's church : the National Shrine and Catholic presence in the nation's capital by Thomas A. Tweed. ISBN 9780199782987. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.