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
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index
