Thomas A. Tweed

Books

• Crossing and Dwelling:  A Theory of Religion.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2006.
• The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912:  Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1992;  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
• Editor.  Buddhism in the United States, 1844-1925.  6 vols.  Bristol, United Kingdom:  Ganesha Publishing, 2004.
• Co-editor with Stephen Prothero.  Asian Religions in America:  A Documentary History.  New York and Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Our Lady of the Exile:  Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami.  New York and Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1997.
  Winner of the 1998 Award for Excellence from the American Academy of Religion.
• Editor.  Retelling U.S. Religious History.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1997.

Articles

• “Crabs, Crustaceans, Crabiness, and Outrage:  A Response.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77 (2009).  
• “Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial:  Latino and Asian Religions in the South.”  In Religion in the Contemporary South:  Changes, Continuities, and Contexts, edited by Corrie E. Norman and Don S. Armentrout.  Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 2005.  Reprinted in Southern Cultures:  The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader, 1993-2008, edited by Larry J. Griffin and Harry L. Watson.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 
• “Why Are Buddhists So Nice?:  Media Representations of Buddhism and Islam since 1945.”  Material Religion 4 (2008). 
• Contribution to the Forum “How the Graduate Study of Religion and American Culture Has Changed in the Past Decade.”  Religion and American Culture 17 (2007).
• “Buddhist Communities Abroad.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2006.  
• “The Spiritual Origins of the Freer Gallery of Art:  Religious and Aesthetic Inclusivism and the First American Buddhist Vogue, 1879-1907.”  The Journal of American and Canadian Studies [Japan] 24 (2006). 
• "'The Seeming Anomaly of Buddhist Negation':  American Encounters with Buddhist Distinctiveness, 1858-1877."  Harvard Theological Review 83 (1990).  Reprinted in the serial Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 164, on “Buddhism in the Nineteenth Century Western World,” edited by Jessica Bomarito and Russell Whitaker (2006). 
• “American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism:  Albert J. Edmunds, D.T. Suzuki, and Translocative History.”  Japanese Journal of Religious Studies [Japan] 32 (2005).
• “Marking Religion’s Boundaries:  Constitutive Terms, Orienting Tropes, and Exegetical Fussiness.”  History of Religions 44 (2005). 
• “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, edited by Robert A. Orsi.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1999.  Reprinted in Religion and American Culture:  A Reader, 2nd ed., edited by David G. Hackett.  New York and London:  Routledge, 2003.
• "Who is a Buddhist?"  In Westward Dharma:  Buddhism Beyond Asia, edited by Charles Prebish and Martin Baumann.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002.  
• "Between the Living and the Dead:  Fieldwork, History, and the Interpreter's Position."  In Personal Knowledge and Beyond:  Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion, edited by James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire.  New York:  New York University Press, 2002.
• “On Moving Across:  Translocative Religion and the Interpreter’s Position.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 70 (2002).   
• Contribution to a Forum on “Teaching the Introductory Course on American Religion.”  Religion and American Culture 12 (2002).
• "John Wesley Slept Here:  American Shrines and American Methodists."  Numen 47 (2000).
• "Proclaiming Catholic Inclusiveness:  Ethnic Diversity and Ecclesiastical Unity at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception."  U.S. Catholic Historian 18 (2000).
• "'America's Church':  Roman Catholicism and Civic Space in the Nation's Capital."  In The Visual Culture of American Religions, edited by Sally Promey and David Morgan.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2001.  
• "Nightstand Buddhists and Other Creatures: Sympathizers, Adherents, and the Study of Religion."  In American Buddhism:  Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship, edited by Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen.  Surrey, U.K.:  Curzon Press, 1999.
• "An Emerging Protestant Establishment:  Religious Affiliation and Public Power on the Urban Frontier in Miami, 1896-1904."  Church History 64 (1996).  Reprinted in American Church History:  A Reader, edited by Henry Warner Bowden and P. C. Kemeny.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1998.
• "Asian Religions in America:  Reflections on an Emerging Subfield."  In Religious Diversity and American Religious History:  Studies in Traditions and Cultures, edited by Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1997.
• “Identity and Authority at a Cuban Shrine in Miami:  Santería, Catholicism, and Struggles for Religious Identity."  Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 4 (1996).
  
• “Inclusivism and the Spiritual Journey of Marie de Souza Canavarro.”  Religion 24 (1994).
• “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 (1992).