From slogans to mantras
Subtitle: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam War era
By: Stephen A. Kent.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Religion and politics
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Student protesters -- Religious life -- United States; Counterculture -- United States; Cults -- United States; Nineteen sixties; Nineteen seventies
Description: Maintains that the failure of political activism led many former radicals to become involved in such groups as the Hare Krishnas, Scientology, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the Jesus movement, and the Children of God, and argues that numerous activists turned from psychedelia and political activism to guru worship and spiritual quest both as a response to the failures of social protest and as a new means of achieving social change. [book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-228) and index.