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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784292503321

Autore

Shires Preston <1956->

Titolo

Hippies of the religious right [[electronic resource] /] / Preston Shires

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, Tex., : Baylor University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-74367-0

9786610743674

1-4294-5694-9

1-60258-096-0

1-4337-0907-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/7730825

Soggetti

Christians - United States - Political activity

Religious right - United States

Christian conservatism - United States

Hippies - United States

Counterculture - United States

United States Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Modern culture-mainstream and mainline -- The counterculture -- Old-time religion and new-time youth -- A radical spirituality for a radical generation -- The evangelical lifestyle -- The countercultural Christians -- The merging of countercultural and evangelical Christianity -- Awaiting the religious right -- Politically right -- The Christian right and its sixties inheritance -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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.