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American Religion in the Age of Counterculture
Yale University Press
October 2003
On Sale: October 1, 2003
304 pages
ISBN: 0300100248
EAN: 9780300100242
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Religion
What happened to American religion during the cultural
revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s? The era has long
been associated with the ascendancy of Eastern religions and
fringe cults. But in this provocative book, Mark Oppenheimer
demonstrates that contrary to conventional wisdom, most
Americans did not turn on, tune in, and drop out of
mainstream religious groups during the Age of Aquarius.
Instead, many Americans brought the counterculture with them
to their churches and temples, changing the face of American
religion. Introducing us to America's first gay ministers
and first female priests, to hippie Jews and folk-singing
Catholics, Oppenheimer demonstrates that this was an era of
extraordinary religious vitality. Drawing on a rich range of
archival material as well as interviews with many of the
protagonists, Knocking on Heaven's Door offers a wry and
iconoclastic reappraisal of the ways in which the upheavals
of the sixties changed America's relationship with God.
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