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The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian ...

The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian ...

Thomas A. Tweed

In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions.
America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence ...

America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence ...

Thomas A. Tweed

" In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism.
New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of ...

New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of ...

Richard J. Callahan

In 1998, religious studies scholar Thomas Tweed edited an important collection of essays entitled Retelling U.S. Religious History. Providing an introductory overview of different paradigms, Tweed identified several key models of U.S. religious ...
Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion

Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion

Thomas A. TWEED

As Morten Schlütter notes in his brief but helpful overview, the Japanese pronunciation of the term kōan, which is an administrative and legal term meaning “public case,” has become standard in English usage, and I follow that practice here, ...
American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship

American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship

Duncan Ryūken Williams

Thomas A. Tweed An American Catholic bishop once confided to me with dismay that the Vietnamese who attend mass in his archdiocese are 'not really Catholic.' Initially I was perplexed by this claim. Did he mean that they had not been ...
America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence ...

America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence ...

Thomas A. Tweed

... DC: National Presbyterian Church, 1996). G. Martin Moeller, Jr., AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., 4th ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006),
Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban ...

Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban ...

Thomas A. Tweed

" While the book focuses on Cuban exiles in Miami, it moves beyond case study as it explores larger issues concerning religion, identity, and place. How do migrants relate to heir homeland?
Asian religions in America: a documentary history

Asian religions in America: a documentary history

Thomas A. Tweed

Asian Religions in America presents the breadth and depth of the American encounter with Asian religions through a wide range of documents -- written and visual, from both elite and popular culture -- dating from 1788 to the present.
29th Infantry Division: A Short History of a Fighting Division

29th Infantry Division: A Short History of a Fighting Division

Joseph H. Ewing

Leonard C. Tally. Darby R. Tutwiler, George E. Wardenfelt. Richard Tatara. Jr.. Joseph J. Tweed, Earl A. Warfield. Kenneth R. Taubman. Julius P. Twining. Everett C. Warfieid. Jr.. Medford Tavis, Thomas F. Tyler, Allen L. Warner. Sr.. Alfred 0.
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

Christopher J. Einolf

George Thomas to John Thomas, 25 January 1841 ,Thomas Papers,VHS. 25. Thomas to Thomas, 25 January 1841. 26. George Thomas to C. P. Kingsbury, 25 July 1841.This letter is no longer extant, but is printed in Coppee, Thomas, 7—9.
Secret Peebles

Secret Peebles

Liz Hanson

One of the old houses in the Northgate is used as an art gallery by Moy Mackay, who creates vibrant landscapes from felted wool fibres, which have been praised by Kaffe Fassett. She has drawn inspiration from the Tweed Valley, where she ...
The Scots Magazine

The Scots Magazine

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Mr George Lockie, Boleside, stands on a bank of the Tweed by a stretch on which he was fisherman for nearly forty years. The Fisherman of Gala From A CORRESPONDENT QN association of words that surely would arouse no surprise if they ...
The Scots Law Times

The Scots Law Times

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MR MIDDLETON RETTIE is the friend of legal mankind in Scotland. Besouth the Tweed, where his immortal works are referred to, he drops into the anonymity of the Fourth Series ; but Scots, who know better than any kinless loon or lord in ...
Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Professor Stewart R Craggs

A Source Book Professor Stewart R Craggs. Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion , 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 ...
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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1697 1 1 w OttoMencke W.O. 3 p. 659 81 21 I Thomas Smith W B.L. 23 I W Thomas Smith B.L. 2oI w Thomas Smith B.L. H.L.C. n.xii [»] 29 I Thomas Smith W B.L. II II Thomas Smith W B.L. 13 HI Thomas Smith w B.L. 19 III Leibniz w W.O. 3 p .
Manus × Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

Manus × Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

Andrew Bolton

Featuring 90 astonishing pieces, ranging from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s iconic tweed suit to Karl Lagerfeld’s 3-D-printed version, and from Yves Saint Laurent’s bird-of-paradise dress to Iris van Herpen’s silicone adaptation — ...
Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events: ...

Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events: ...

John Sykes

which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed, from the earliest period of authentic ... J. D. Carlyle, 20; Dr. William Paley, 24 ; Mr. William Lam- shaw, 26 ; Rev. ... John Baillie, 30; Rev.
Reading southern history: essays on interpreters and ...

Reading southern history: essays on interpreters and ...

Glenn Feldman

4 Frank L. Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South after Fifty Years ANTHONY GENE CAREY At a meeting of the Southern Historical Association several years ago, a crowd of tweed-coated and blue-blazered men, and women in dark dresses, ...
A Thomas More source book

A Thomas More source book

Sir Thomas More (Saint)

"A Thomas More Sourcebook" brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More to reflect his views on education, politics, church-state relations, love, and friendship.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

Thomas Jefferson

1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 Thomas Jefferson J. Jefferson Looney ... OxfordshireOX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826 The papers of Thomas Jefferson .
Recreation site planning and improvement in national ...

Recreation site planning and improvement in national ...

William C. Tweed

Sherman actually did not become Associate Forester until April 1920. FSHS, Arthur H. Carhart, "Special Report" (unpublished manuscript, 1974), p. 1. 10. Robert W. Cermak, "In the Beginning: The First National Forest Recreation Plan," Parks ...
Aeronautics

Aeronautics

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William Geoffrey Moore. George Hancock Reid. Thomas Yaughan Lister. Thomas Francis Netterville Gerrard. Oswald Noel Walmesley. James Edward Baker Maclean. John Daniel Newberry. Thomas Hinshelwood. t rank Thomas Digby.
Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice cream for a big party, and if he ...
The Salvage

The Salvage

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas, Charles Kikuchi, James Minoru Sakoda. procedure was not correct, so it had to be stopped. This action was instigated by Dr. [X], an Issei who had resided in this country for many years. He claimed that it was ...
The Poems of Dylan Thomas

The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

This new, revised edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971.
Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Memoirs of the life and ministry of the late Rev. Thomas ...

Thomas Raffles

Thomas Raffles. endure. You know poor White, of Chester, has received the end of his faith — the salvation of his soul; I delivered the oration over his ... Wishing much to see you, I remain, dear Sir, "Affectionately your's, "Thomas Spencer.
The British Tariff ...

The British Tariff ...

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Edwin K. Chatwin. Thomas O'Connor. Joseph Tilley. Stephen Cooper. Thomas Robinson. James Wood, Thomas Boyes. ... J. Perrin. William Davis. John Wade. Thomas Luck. Joseph Dewar. George Ladbury. Third C'lass.—-Stephen C. March .

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