Tweed, Thomas A. (Personal Name)

His The American encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912, c1992: CIP t.p. (Thomas A. Tweed) CIP jkt. copy (prof., Religious Studies Dept., Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.)

Retelling U.S. religious history, 1997: CIP t.p. (Thomas A. Tweed) data sheet (b. 12/28/54)

University of Notre Dame Department of American Studies, via WWW, March 10, 2017 (Thomas Tweed; Ph. D., Stanford University; M.A., Stanford University; M.T.S., Harvard University; B.S., Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Tweed is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History, University of Notre Dame; he is also Faculty Fellow in the Institute of Latino Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; he previously taught at the University of Texas, the University of Miami, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.; at UNC he was Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, and founding director of the First Year Seminar Program; he edited Retelling U.S. Religious History and co-edited Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History; he also wrote The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent and Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami; Tweed's Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion was published in 2006, and his most recent book, America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital, received the AAR's book award for historical studies; his professional service has included work as external reviewer, expert witness, blog contributor, museum consultant, and media advisor; he has led workshops for high school teachers and been on the editorial board of journals, including Church History and History of Religions; in 2015, Tweed served as president of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the largest professional organization for scholars of religion)