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God's Forever Family - The Jesus People Movement in America (Hardcover)
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God's Forever Family - The Jesus People Movement in America (Hardcover)
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The Jesus People movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was an
important force in the lives of millions of American Baby Boomers.
This unique combination of the hippie counterculture and
evangelical Christianity first appeared amid 1967's famed "Summer
of Love" in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and grew like
wildfire in Southern California and in cities like Seattle,
Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way
into the national spotlight, attracting a great deal of
contemporary media and scholarly attention. In the wake of
publicity, the movement gained momentum and attracted a huge new
following among evangelical church youth who enthusiastically
adopted the Jesus People persona as their own. In the process, the
movement spread across the country - particularly into the Great
Lakes region - and coffeehouses, "Jesus Music" singers, and "One
Way" bumper stickers soon blanketed the land. Within a few years,
however, the movement faded and disappeared and was largely
forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks. God's
Forever Family is the first major attempt to re-examine the Jesus
People phenomenon in over thirty years. It reveals that it was one
of the most important American religious movements of the second
half of the 20th-century. Not only did the Jesus movement produce
such burgeoning new evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the
Vineyard movement, but the Jesus People paved the way for the huge
Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise
Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, perhaps, it
revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular
culture-important factors in the evangelical subculture's emerging
engagement with the larger American culture from the late 1970s
forward. God's Forever Family makes the case that the Jesus People
movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but -
alongside the hippie counterculture and the student movement - must
be considered one of the major formative powers that shaped
American youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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