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.