America's church : the National Shrine and Catholic presence in the nation's capital /
Tweed, Thomas A.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.)