American religious liberalism /

American religious liberalism / edited by Leigh E. Schmidt and Sally M. Promey. - 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations. - Religion in North America . - Religion in North America. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

0253002184 (electronic bk.) 9780253002181 (electronic bk.)

9786613813060

381306 MIL


Liberalism (Religion)--United States.
Liberalism (Religion)
Religion.
Godsdiensten.
Verdraagzaamheid.
Liberalisme.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion
RELIGION / Essays
RELIGION / Reference


United States--Religion.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.


Electronic books.

BL2525 / .A5443 2012

200.973