Historian: modern religious conservatism emerged in 60's counterculture

The author, a historian at Southeast Community College, considers links between evangelicalism and 1960s youth culture and shows how a mixing of the two in the "Jesus movement" went on to influence the "biblically grounded politics" of a force most historians describe as "purely reactionary." Yet, "if it had not been for the counterculture," he says, "there may never have been a Christian Right." It was the counterculture that gave evangelicals "the rebellious spirit, the youthful activists, and the committed voters it so needed." "Hippies of The Religious Right" Chronicle of Higher Education (pass required)