Hippies of the Religious Right

Preston Shires is Instructor in History, SE Community College in Lincoln, NE.

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

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 Recommended. -- CHOICE 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