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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Leigh Eric.

Promey, Sally M., 1953-

Series:

Religion in North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Religion.

United States.

Religion.

Liberalism (Religion)--United States.

Liberalism (Religion).

Physical Description:

xii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Religious liberalism in America has often been equated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. By contrast, American Religious Liberalism draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America's religious past of the progressive strands of America's religious past and present in this richly provocative volume. Book jacket.

Contents:

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 revolution" 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253002167

0253002168

9780253002099

0253002095

9780253002181

0253002184

OCLC:

740630841