2025 J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies Lecture: "Religion in the Lands That Became America" featuring Thomas A. Tweed

Wednesday, Sept 10th, at 3:30 in the Treasure Room of the Armstrong Barrett Library. Book signing and reception to follow the lecture from 4:30-5:30.

Thomas A. Tweed is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has chaired the American Studies Department and has been affiliated with Latino Studies, Peace Studies, and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion. Tweed previously taught at UT Austin, University of Miami, and UNC Chapel Hill, where he served as Chair of Religious Studies, Zachary Smith Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. His publications, which include eight books and a six-volume series of historical documents, have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and translated into five languages. Tweed edited Retelling U.S. Religious History and co-edited Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History, which Choice named an "outstanding academic book." He wrote Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion as well as Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami, which won the American Academy of Religion's book award, and America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital, which won the same award in 2012. Tweed served as president of the American Academy of Religion in 2015. Oxford University Press published Religion: A Very Short Introduction in 2020, and his latest book, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History, was published by Yale University Press in 2025. 

Links: 

https://americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/thomas-tweed/

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221480/religion-in-the-lands-that-became-america/