Thomas A Tweed
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 267808 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas A Tweed |
| NOMBRES | Thomas A |
| APELLIDO | Tweed |
| FIRMA | TWEED T A |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3762-3773 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Exchange on the History of American Liberal Protestantism
This exchange began in Chicago as a roundtable at the American Society for Church History’s annual conference in January 2026. It brought together scholars whose work has pushed the study of American liberal Protestantism in pathbreaking directions. In Chicago, we discussed how we came to study liberal Protestantism, how we defined the boundaries of this community, how we understood its place in American history and the history of liberalism, and…
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English settlers in Jamestown or Plymouth and remained predominantly Protestant and Atlantic. Driven by his strong sense of the historical and moral shortcomings of the usual story, Thomas A. Tweed offers a very di…
Religion in the Lands That Became America
Religion's Engine
After reading Jon Butler's richly documented history of religion in Manhattan, I thought again of one of my favorite images: a 1939 watercolor by Ben Shahn called Self-Portrait among the Churchgoers, in which a photographer stands near a church on Sunday but points his camera toward the street and seems to ignore the gathering worshippers. Some U.S. historians might be relieved they do not need to learn more about those pious pedestrians, or what…
The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights
On Narratives, Niches, and Religion
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Valuing the Study of Religion
This presidential address aims to improve the clarity and effectiveness of conversations within the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and beyond it. As for our internal AAR debates, we sometimes talk across subfields, but we have few productive exchanges that identify what we share and what we don't. We talk past each other or don't talk at all. Further, as we defend the study of religion in the public arena and in our educational institutions, …
After the Quotidian Turn
Toward a Translocative History of Occult Buddhism
Issues of Ethnicity in the Buddhist Churches of America
Space
Toward the Study of Vernacular Intellectualism
This article is a response to the three papers by Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking on U Dhammaloka, ‘The Irish Buddhist’, published in this issue of Contemporary Buddhism
Expanding the study of U.S. religion
The study of U.S. religion, which dates from the 19th century, expanded its sources, methods, and scope during the last quarter of the 20th century, as specialists offered more inclusive historical narratives. That methodological expansion never went far enough, however, and the impulse toward narrative inclusiveness has been restrained in recent years. The subfield, I argue, now faces a number of challenges that also confront other specializatio…
Mary's rain and god's umbrella
In this article I introduce a self-taught Chicana artist, Caroline Martinez, and highlight her work's religious significance. I offer a brief account of her life and a preliminary interpretation of her art. The art that adorns her Texas home and yard, I argue, is a visual testimony to the intercessory power of Jesus and Mary to heal the sick, feed the body, and protect the vulnerable. I then consider the implications of this case study for schola…
Religious Studies
Crabs, Crustaceans, Crabiness, and Outrage
IN HIS RESPONSE to my book, Crossing and Dwelling, a theory of religion that emerged from five years of fieldwork among Cuban American Catholics at a shrine in Miami, Aaron Hughes raises two criticisms. First, my theory does not account for his minyan in North West Calgary. I would have to know much more about those “real flesh and blood Jews” and more about what he wants to interpret to offer a sustained analysis, but I suspect that such an anal…
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Crossing and Dwelling
This book depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Drawing on insights from the natural and social sciences, Tweed’s work is grounded in the particulars of distinctive religious practices, even as it moves toward ideas about cross-cultural patterns. It offers a responsible way to think broadly about religion.
American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism
Transnational exchanges shaped religious life in Meiji (1868Meiji ( -1912) ) and Taish (1912Taish ( -1926) ) Japan and Gilded Age (1865-1900) and Progressive Era (1900)(1901)(1902)(1903)(1904)(1905)(1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914)(1915)(1916)(1917) America. This essay analyzes one case of cultural exchange in this period. It focuses on Albert J. Edmunds, a British-American Buddhist sympathizer, and it considers the ways that…
Marking Religion's Boundaries
On moving across
Scholars in many fields have considered the position of the interpreter, and religious studies scholars have addressed some of the relevant issues. However, none of the available accounts is fully satisfying because they either fail to locate the interpreter or imagine the interpreter's position as fixed. In this article I draw on my experience of doing fieldwork with transnational migrants as I try to move toward a more textured account of where…
Protestants and Pictures
The American encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
This work examines 19th-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction to the USA, the author shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact with America's established culture and fundamentally different Protestant tradition. The text, first published in 1992, traces the efforts of various American interpreters to make se…
Gatherings in Diaspora
Book Review| January 01 2000 Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration, R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner. Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (2): 136–139. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502573 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Our Lady of the Exile
Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims are diverse, and so are the motives that bring them. At the same time, author Thomas A. Tweed argues, Cuban devotees of the national patroness s…
On moving across
Scholars in many fields have considered the position of the interpreter, and religious studies scholars have addressed some of the relevant issues. However, none of the available accounts is fully satisfying because they either fail to locate the interpreter or imagine the interpreter's position as fixed. In this article I draw on my experience of doing fieldwork with transnational migrants as I try to move toward a more textured account of where…
Marking Religion's Boundaries
Our Lady of the Exile
Journal Article Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami. By Thomas A. Tweed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-510529-X.) Get access Maria Cristina García Maria Cristina García Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1170–117…
After the Quotidian Turn
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Expanding the study of U.S. religion
The study of U.S. religion, which dates from the 19th century, expanded its sources, methods, and scope during the last quarter of the 20th century, as specialists offered more inclusive historical narratives. That methodological expansion never went far enough, however, and the impulse toward narrative inclusiveness has been restrained in recent years. The subfield, I argue, now faces a number of challenges that also confront other specializatio…
An American Pioneer in the Study of Religion
Journal Article An American Pioneer in the Study of Religion: Hannah Adams (1755–1831) and her Dictionary of All Religions Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A Tweed is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the aid of the late Professor William A Clebsch, who introduced him to the wri…
Vedanta for the West
Journal Article Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. By Carl T. Jackson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xvi, 185 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33098-X.) Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 286–287, https://…
The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights
Valuing the Study of Religion
This presidential address aims to improve the clarity and effectiveness of conversations within the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and beyond it. As for our internal AAR debates, we sometimes talk across subfields, but we have few productive exchanges that identify what we share and what we don't. We talk past each other or don't talk at all. Further, as we defend the study of religion in the public arena and in our educational institutions, …
Crabs, Crustaceans, Crabiness, and Outrage
IN HIS RESPONSE to my book, Crossing and Dwelling, a theory of religion that emerged from five years of fieldwork among Cuban American Catholics at a shrine in Miami, Aaron Hughes raises two criticisms. First, my theory does not account for his minyan in North West Calgary. I would have to know much more about those “real flesh and blood Jews” and more about what he wants to interpret to offer a sustained analysis, but I suspect that such an anal…
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John Wesley Slept Here
Historians of religion have devoted little attention to shrines in the United States, and the limited scholarship that is available has overlooked Protestants. Protestants, most interpreters have assumed, do not have shrines or make pilgrimages. In this essay I define and classify shrines, surveying a wide range of sacred sites in the United States. Then I challenge the assumptions about Protestants and pilgrimage. Focusing on the United Methodis…
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Journal Article The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844–1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. By Thomas A. Tweed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xxvi + 242 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-36099-4.) Get access Jon H. Roberts Jon H. Roberts University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages …
“The Seeming Anomaly of Buddhist Negation”
In a lecture in Horticultural Hall in Boston on Sunday 3 March 1872 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the social reformer and religious radical, praised “The Character of the Buddha.” He ended his very sympathetic portrait by alluding to King Asoka's discovery of the tomb of the Buddha. Those who opened the tomb, so the story goes, found the lamps that had been lighted two hundred years earlier still burning and the flowers that had been offered in hom…
Belief and Behavior
Journal Article Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History. Ed. by Philip R. VanderMeer and Robert P. Swierenga. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 236 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-8135-1671-4. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-1672-2.) Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
An American Pioneer in the Study of Religion
Journal Article An American Pioneer in the Study of Religion: Hannah Adams (1755–1831) and her Dictionary of All Religions Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A Tweed is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the aid of the late Professor William A Clebsch, who introduced him to the wri…
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Journal Article The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844–1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. By Thomas A. Tweed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xxvi + 242 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-36099-4.) Get access Jon H. Roberts Jon H. Roberts University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages …
East Asian Art and American Culture
Journal Article East Asian Art and American Culture: A Study in International Relations. By Warren I. Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xxii + 264 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-23107644-4.) Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.2…
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Journal Article The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844–1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent, by Thomas A. Tweed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992, xxiv + 242 pp. Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. Silvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711741 Published: 0…
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Inclusivism and the spiritual journey of Marie de Souza Canavarro (1849-1933)
Every age has its share of religious seekers, but during some periods of spiritual crisis greater numbers of seekers seem to appear. Marie de Souza Canavarro, an American advocate and interpreter of Asian traditions, was a paradigmatic seeker in an age of religious wandering. Along the way, she embraced Catholicism, Theosophy, Buddhism, Bahá'í, and Hinduism. In this article I offer an interpretation of her life and work, drawing on her novels, po…
Vedanta for the West
Journal Article Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States. By Carl T. Jackson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xvi, 185 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33098-X.) Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 286–287, https://…
American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. Arthur Versluis
An Emerging Protestant Establishment
A photograph taken in 1896, the year of Miami's incorporation, circulated widely in periodicals of the time, and it came to symbolize the founding of the city in the local and national imagination (figure 1). "That picture has gone all over this country," one of the men who posed for it recalled, "showing the start of Miami." In the image seventeen men stand by the mouth of the Miami River, where workers were clearing the ground for the construct…
Religious Artifacts and Diasporic Identity
More than 10,000 Cuban exiles gathered on a chilly Sunday afternoon in 1973 to dedicate the new shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami—waving flags, singing songs, and chanting petitions to the national patroness. After six years of work, the committee of laity and clergy that had assumed responsibility for planning and constructing the building had managed to raise $420,000, mostly in small donations from recent exiles who could not afford it. T…
Postscript
In this book I have analyzed how Cuban devotees of the national patroness—especially but not exclusively mature, middle-class whites—have appealed to the Virgin at her shrine in Miami to make sense of themselves as an exiled nation. They have done so by, in the words of the shrine’s director, painting the image of Our Lady of Charity “in the colors of the Cuban flag.” Despite important differences among them, most visitors to the Virgin’s Miami s…
Diverse Devotees, Plural Practices, and Multiple Meanings
It was a perfect Monday afternoon in February, the sun gleaming off the shrine’s copper roof—one of those days that had lured so many tourists and migrants to this city earlier in the century. But the perfect weather did not draw Manuel and his daughter Yvonne that weekday in 1992. The Virgin did, although it took me some time to discover that since I first encountered the twenty-four-year-old daughter. Dressed in stylish shorts and an elegant bl…
The Virgin’s Exile
The story of Cuban exile Catholicism begins on a rainy Friday in 1961 as Our Lady of Charity travels from an airport in Havana to a baseball stadium in Miami on her feast day, 8 September, a day when the Cuban patroness herself would become an exile. The statue of Our Lady of Charity that journeyed from Havana to Miami had sacred power for her dispersed devotees, even though it was not the original image, which remained in the shrine in the easte…
Santería, Catholicism, and Evangelization
On a warm June day a middle-aged, lower-class black woman strode to the water’s edge just behind the shrine to Our Lady of Charity in Miami. This recently arrived Cuban exile, who dressed in the white of an iyawó or Santería initiate, placed a small faded statue of the Virgin on the concrete wall bordering the bay. Ignoring the interior of the shrine, where a priest was leading a hundred visitors in saying the rosary, Mirta faced the sea, raised …
Nationalism, Religion, and Diasporic Identity
Even if Manuel and Mercedes also petitioned the Virgin about other personal concerns—about health and family—they told me that they came to pray for Cuba and Cubans. Even if Lucia sang her songs alone on the grass, ladies lounged in lawn chairs by the water, and Oscar circumambulated the shrine for exercise, they also visited the national patroness inside to bring her their concerns about the Cuban community. In that way they had a great deal in …
Religious Rituals and Diasporic Identity
At 8:30 on a Wednesday night in 1993 several Cuban-born men from the confraternity, dressed in traditional white guayabera shirts, carried the statue of Our Lady of Charity into an auditorium in Miami for her annual feast-day mass. Recently arrived by boat from her short journey from the shrine, the Virgin was welcomed by thousands of devotees. She made her way through a sea of fluttering white, red, and blue as followers waved white handkerchief…
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Our Lady of the Exile
Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims are diverse, and so are the motives that bring them. At the same time, author Thomas A. Tweed argues, Cuban devotees of the national patroness s…
Old Wisdom in the New World
Focusing on two well-established institutions one in Chicago, the other in Los Angeles Old Wisdom in the New World is the first systematic examination of the growing presence of Theravada Buddhist temples in the United States. Paul David Numrich's socio-historical analysis highlights a number of classic Americanization themes of establishment, growth, and adaptation. These have surfaced, the author shows, in debates over the retention of Old Worl…
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