Curriculum
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Thomas A. Tweed
Department of Religious Studies
CB#3225, 125 Saunders Hall
email: tatweed@email.unc.edu
Work: (919) 962-3934
Home: (919) 933-4300
Experience:
2002- Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Religious Studies
2000-2001 Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies;
Adjunct Professor of
American Studies, Curriculum in American Studies
1999-2004 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula, College of Arts and Sciences
1999-2000 Founding Director, First Year Seminar Program, College of Arts and Sciences
1996-2000 Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies
1993-96 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina
1988-93 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami.
Education:
March 1989 Ph.D., Religious Studies, Stanford University
June 1983 M.A., Religious Studies, Stanford University
June 1979 M.T.S., Harvard University, The Divinity School
March 1977 B.S., Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
Publications:
BOOKS:
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the
Limits of Dissent. Religion in North America Series. (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1992). 242pp. 2nd edition in paperback: (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 224 pp. (Paperback edition 2002). Won the 1998 Award for Excellence from the American Academy of Religion for the best historical study of religion.
Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2005).
EDITED BOOKS:
Retelling U.S. Religious History (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1997). 291pp.
Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History, co-edited with Stephen Prothero (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). 416pp. Named an "Outstanding Academic Book" for 1999 by Choice.
Editor and Introduction. Buddhism in the United States, 1844-1925, 6 vols. (Bristol, United Kingdom: Ganesha Publishing, 2004). The series' six volumes reprint important primary sources for the study of America's encounter with Buddhism: Volume 1, Contacts and Exchanges in Print Culture: Encountering Buddhism in U.S. Periodicals, 1844-1903; Volume 2, Imagining Buddhism's Founder; Volume 3, Challenging Buddhism's Popularity; Volume 4, Answering Buddhism's Critics; Volume 5, Explaining Buddhism's Teachings; Volume 6, Presenting Convert Interpretations. 2,700 pages.
The Oxford Companion to American Religion, co-editor (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, under contract).
BOOK INTRODUCTION:
"Introduction: Hannah Adams's Survey of the Religious Landscape,"
Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, by Hannah Adams,
Classics in Religious Studies Series, reprint (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992;
and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), vii-xxxiv.
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS:
"Asian Religions in America: Reflections on an Emerging Subfield,"
in Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions
and Cultures, ed. Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss (Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1997), 189-217.
"Nightstand Buddhists and Other Creatures: Sympathizers, Adherents, and the Study of Religion," in American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship, ed. Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen (Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 1999), 71-90.
"Diasporic Nationalism and Urban Landscape: Cuban Immigrants at a Catholic Shrine in Miami," in The Gods of the City: Religion and the Contemporary American Urban Landscape, ed. Robert A. Orsi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 151-74.
"'America's Church': Roman Catholicism and Civic Space in the Nation's Capital," in The Visual Culture of American Religions, Sally Promey and David Morgan, eds., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 129-57.
"Between the Living and the Dead: Fieldwork, History, and the Interpreter's Position," in Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion, James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire, eds., (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 63-74.
"Who is a Buddhist?" in Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia,, Charles Prebish and Martin Baumann, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 17-33.
SELECTED REFEREED ARTICLES:
"'The Seeming Anomaly of Buddhist Negation:' American Encounters with
Buddhist Distinctiveness, 1858-1877," Harvard Theological Review 83.1
(January 1990): 65-92.
"An American Pioneer in the Study of Religion: Hannah Adams (1755-1831)
and Her Dictionary of All Religions," Journal of the American Academy
of Religion, 60.3 (December 1992): 437-64.
"Inclusivism and the Spiritual Journey of Marie de Souza Canavarro."
Religion 24 (January 1994): 43-58.
"An Emerging Protestant Establishment: Religious Affiliation and Public
Power on the Urban Frontier in Miami, 1896-1904," Church History, 64
(September 1996): 412-37.
"Identity and Authority at a Cuban Shrine in Miami: Santería, Catholicism, and Struggles for Religious Identity," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 4 (August 1996): 27-48.
"Proclaiming Catholic Inclusiveness: Ethnic Diversity and Ecclesiastical Unity at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception," U.S. Catholic Historian, 18 (Winter 2000), 1-18.
"John Wesley Slept Here: American Shrines and American Methodists," Numen, 47 (spring 2000), 41-68.
Contribution to a Forum on "Teaching the Introductory Course on American Religion," Religion and American Culture, vol. 12, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 1-8.
"On Moving Across: Translocative Religion and the Interpreter's Position," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 70.2 (June 2002): 253-77.
"Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial," Southern Cultures (Summer 2002): 72-93.
"Marking Religion's Boundaries: Constitutive Terms, Orienting Tropes, and Exegetical Fussiness," History of Religions, 44.3 (February 2005), forthcoming.
Selected Honors and Fellowships:
2000 Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (Oxford University
Press, 1999) named an "Outstanding Academic Book" for 1999 by Choice.
1998 Our Lady of the Exile (Oxford University Press, 1997) won the Award for Excellence, American Academy of Religion, for best historical book.
1997 Elected to membership in the American Society for the Study of Religion.
Awarded the Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, UNC.
"Favorite Faculty Award" by the Senior Class of 1997, UNC.
1994-95 National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship for University
Teachers. "Diasporic Religion at a
Cuban-American Shrine in Miami."
1992-93 Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, a
two-year fellowship for "Young Scholars in American Religion" funded
by the Pew Charitable Trusts.