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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects
Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement,
this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from
the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the
tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American
religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American
Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more.
The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter
focuses on a different new religious movement and features: - an
introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding
- two to four primary source documents about or from the movement -
suggestions for further reading.
Winner of the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the Year First Place
Winner of the Religion Newswriters Association's Non-fiction
Religion Book of the Year The Jesus People movement was a unique
combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical
Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of
1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like
wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle,
Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way
into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a
huge new following among evangelical church youth, who
enthusiastically adopted the Jesus People persona as their own.
Within a few years, however, the movement disappeared and was
largely forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks.
God's Forever Family argues that the Jesus People movement was one
of the most important American religious movements of the second
half of the 20th-century. Not only do such new and burgeoning
evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard trace back to
the Jesus People, but the movement paved the way for the huge
Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise
Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, it
revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular
culture. Larry Eskridge makes the case that the Jesus People
movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but must
be considered one of the formative powers that shaped American
youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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