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 Sorrett -- 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.

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