From Slogans To Mantras Social Protest And Religious Conversion In The Late Vietnam War Era Kent by Kent, Stephen A 9780815629238, 9780815629481, 0815629230, 0815629486 instant download after payment.

This book takes a provocative look at the early 1970s - an often
overlooked yet colorful period when the Vietnam War and student protests
were on the wane as new religious groups grew in size and visibility.
Certainly, religious strains were evident through postwar popular
culture from the 1950s Beat generation into the 1960s drug
counterculture, but the explosion of nontraditional religions during the
early 1970s was unprecedented. This phenomenon took place in the United
States (and at the edges of American-influenced Canadian society) among
young people who had been committed to bringing about what they called
""the revolution"" but were converting to a wide variety of Eastern and
Western mystical and spiritual movements. Stephen Kent maintains that
the failure of political activism led former radicals to become involved
with groups such as the Hare Krishnas, Scientology, Sun Myung Moon's
Unification Church, the Jesus movement, and the Children of God. Drawing
on scholarly literature, alternative press reportage, and personal
narratives, Kent shows how numerous activists turned from psychedelia
and political activism to guru worship and spiritual quest as a response
to the failures of social protest - and as a new means of achieving
societal change.