The Jesus People Movement: A Story of Spiritual Revolution among the Hippies

by Richard A. Bustraan

Overview

Who would have imagined that the hippies, those long-haired, psychedelia-influenced youth of the 1960s, would have initiated a spiritual revolution that has transformed American Christianity? If you are unfamiliar with the 1960s, the counterculture, the hippie movement, and the Jesus People, then this book will transport you to that era and introduce you to the generation and the decade that turned American culture upside down. If you have read other books on the Jesus People, this account will take you by surprise. A refreshingly different narrative that unveils a storyline and characters not commonly known to have been associated with the movement, this book argues that the Jesus People, though often trivialized and stigmatized as a group of lost and vulnerable youth who strayed from the Fundamentalism of their childhood, helped American Christianity negotiate a way forward in a post-1960s culture. It examines the narrative of the Holy Spirit and the phenomenon called Pentecostalism. Although utterly central, the Jesus People's Pentecostalism has never been examined and their story has been omitted from the historiography of Pentecostalism. This account uniquely redresses this omission.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630873509
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	02/13/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Bustraan is a pastor and charity director of Calvary Chapel Birmingham in England. He is an American who has lived abroad for the better part of the past twenty-four years, working in various countries as a Christian minister. For the past fifteen years he has made his home in England. He received his BS from Florida Atlantic University, his MDiv from Columbia International University, and his PhD from the University of Birmingham, England.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

List of Abbreviations xxii

1 The 1960s and the Hippies 1

2 A Historical Overview 27

3 A Story of American Pentecostalism 57

4 A Sociological Identity 108

5 A Theological Identity 136

6 Conclusions on the Jesus People Movement 178

Bibliography 209

Index 235