- Cults, Nineteen sixties, Protest movements, Religious life
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].
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Grave, classical in form, cool and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Stephen A. Kent
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780815629238
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