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

About the Author

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

Reviews

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