{"product_id":"from-slogans-to-mantras-stephen-kent-9780815629481","title":"From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eCertainly, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Kent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815629486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815629481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.06w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2001 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2001 pg. 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/25\/2002 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2002 pg. 1887","brand":"Stephen Kent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986725142783,"sku":"9780815629481","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2244301-1e9a-462e-9197-c2eba3fa16ad.jpg?v=1683284859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-slogans-to-mantras-stephen-kent-9780815629481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}