Hippies of the Religious Right: From the Counterculture of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell

by Preston Shires

Overview

This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602580961
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	287
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Preston Shires (Ph D University of Nebraska) is Instructor in History, SE Community College in Lincoln, NE

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Modern Culture--Mainstream and Mainline

2. The Counterculture

3. Old-Time Religion and New-Time Youth

4. A Radical Spirituality for a Radical Generation

5. The Evangelical Lifestyle

6. The Countercultural Christians

7. The Merging of Countercultural and Evangelical Christianity

8. Awaiting the Religious Right

9. Politically Right

10. The Christian Right and Its Sixties Inheritance

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

Shires shows how some countercultural values from the 1960s era survive in the motivations of participants in what would seem an entirely different social movement, socially activist evangelical Protestantism. His well-documented case is original and provocative.

Tim Miller

Shires shows how some countercultural values from the 1960s era survive in the motivations of participants in what would seem an entirely different social movement, socially activist evangelical Protestantism. His well-documented case is original and provocative.

Amanda Porterfield

This book contributes significantly to understanding the fervent supernaturalism evident in American public life today.

Editorial Reviews

Hippies of the Religious Right is an important resource because of the information that it provides on the Jesus movement, a short-lived evangelical subgroup that unfortunately has received little attention from historians.

Reviews in American History

Recommended.

CHOICE

This book contributes significantly to understanding the fervent supernaturalism evident in American public life today.

-Amanda Porterfield, Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and Director of Graduate Studies, Florida State University

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