Thomas A. Tweed: Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Thomas A. Tweed is Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula. He teaches courses about Religion in the United States and Religion and Culture, and he received a "Favorite Faculty" award from the Class of 1997. Tweed has published five books. He edited Retelling U.S. Religious History (1997) and co-edited Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (1999), which Choice named an "outstanding academic book." He also wrote The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent (1992) and Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (1997), which won the American Academy of Religion's 1998 Award for Excellence. Tweed's latest book, Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2005.
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