ABSTRACT
This book explores the surprisingly disruptive role of religion for progressive and conservative ideologies in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has recognized. Lints explores how the themes of protest and retrieval intersect each other in ironic ways in the significant concrete controversies of the 1960s - the Civil Rights Movement, Second Feminist Movement, The Jesus Movements, and the Anti-War Movements - and in the conceptual conflicts of ideas during the era - The Death of God Movement, the end of ideology controversy, and the death of foundationalism. Lints argues that religion and religious ideologies serve both a prophetic function as well as a domesticating one, and that neither "conservative" nor "progressive" movements have cornered the market in either direction. In the process Lints helps us better understand the complex role of religion in cultural formation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
The Problem of Naming
part |41 pages
Protest as Upheaval and Retrieval
chapter |18 pages
Revolutions and Ruins: The 1960s and the Paradoxes of Interpretation
chapter |22 pages
The Identity of Crisis: Postmodernity and the 1960s
part |81 pages
Protest and Irony
chapter |34 pages
The Stirrings of Change: Civil Rights and the Ideology of Race
chapter |24 pages
The Critique of Mass Culture and the End of Ideology
chapter |22 pages
The Ideology of Gender and the Rebirthing of Feminism
part |45 pages
Hopeful Pessimists
chapter |26 pages
The End of Epistemology and The Death of Foundationalism
chapter |18 pages
The Death Beyond the Death of God: Radical Theology in the 1960s
part |39 pages
Hesitant Radicals
chapter |16 pages
A Secular Voice Against Secularity
chapter |22 pages
Radical Retrieval: Evangelicals and the Story of the 1960s
part |7 pages
Conclusion