American religious liberalism / edited by Leigh E. Schmidt and Sally M. Promey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The parameters and problematics of American religious liberalism / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Reading poetry religiously : the Walt Whitman Fellowship and seeker spirituality / Michael Robertson -- The Christology of niceness : Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Jesus novel, and sacred trivialities / Carrie Tirado Bramen -- Visible liberalism : liberal Protestant taste evangelism, 1850 and 1950 / Sally M. Promey -- Discovering imageless truths : the Bahá'í pilgrimage of Juliet Thompson, artist / Christopher G. White -- Where "deep streams flow, endlessly renewing" : metaphysical religion and "cultural evolution" in the art of Agnes Pelton / Nathan Rees -- "Citizens of all the world's temples" : cosmopolitan religion at Bell Street Chapel / Emily R. Mace -- Spiritual border-crossings in the U.S. women's rights movement / Kathi Kern -- "We build our temples for tomorrow" : racial ecumenism and religious liberalism in the Harlem Renaissance / Josef Sorett -- Reading across the divide of faith : liberal Protestant book culture and interfaith encounters in print, 1921-1948 / Matthew S. Hedstrom -- The dominant, the damned, and the discs : on the metaphysical liberalism of Charles Fort and its afterlives / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Liberal sympathies : Morris Jastrow and the science of religion / Kathryn Lofton -- Jewish liberalism through comparative lenses : Reform Judaism and its liberal Christian counterparts / Yaakov Ariel -- Each attitude a syllable : the linguistic turn in William James's Varieties of religious experience / Lindsay V. Reckson -- Protestant pragmatism in China, 1919-1927 / Gretchen Boger -- Demarcating democracy : liberal Catholics, Protestants, and the discourse of secularism / K. Healan Gaston -- Religious liberalism and the liberal geopolitics of religion / Tracy Fessenden -- Afterword and commentary: Religious liberalism and ecumenical self-interrogation / David A. Hollinger.

Introduction:The parameters and problematics of American religious liberalism /Leigh E. Schmidt --Reading poetry religiously : the Walt Whitman Fellowship and seeker spirituality /Michael Robertson --The Christology of niceness : Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Jesus novel, and sacred trivialities /Carrie Tirado Bramen --Visible liberalism : liberal Protestant taste evangelism, 1850 and 1950 /Sally M. Promey --Discovering imageless truths : the Bahá'í pilgrimage of Juliet Thompson, artist /Christopher G. White --Where "deep streams flow, endlessly renewing" : metaphysical religion and "cultural evolution" in the art of Agnes Pelton /Nathan Rees --"Citizens of all the world's temples" : cosmopolitan religion at Bell Street Chapel /Emily R. Mace --Spiritual border-crossings in the U.S. women's rights movement /Kathi Kern --"We build our temples for tomorrow" : racial ecumenism and religious liberalism in the Harlem Renaissance /Josef Sorett --Reading across the divide of faith : liberal Protestant book culture and interfaith encounters in print, 1921-1948 /Matthew S. Hedstrom --The dominant, the damned, and the discs : on the metaphysical liberalism of Charles Fort and its afterlives /Jeffrey J. Kripal --Liberal sympathies : Morris Jastrow and the science of religion /Kathryn Lofton --Jewish liberalism through comparative lenses : Reform Judaism and its liberal Christian counterparts /Yaakov Ariel --Each attitude a syllable : the linguistic turn in William James's Varieties of religious experience /Lindsay V. Reckson --Protestant pragmatism in China, 1919-1927 /Gretchen Boger --Demarcating democracy : liberal Catholics, Protestants, and the discourse of secularism /K. Healan Gaston --Religious liberalism and the liberal geopolitics of religion /Tracy Fessenden --Afterword and commentary:Religious liberalism and ecumenical self-interrogation /David A. Hollinger.