HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: New Religious Movement, Baby Boomers, Vibraphone
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New religious movements said instead of cult". Religious movements: sect to church formation mormonism. Evangelicals an example of what was also originally thought of as a cult pro-slavery in the. More people part of some sort of religion. Most heard preacher in the us in the early 50s. Baby boomers saw post-war christianity as irrelevant because it didn"t address civil rights etc. So this started the movements in art, music etc. Blending of a bunch of traditional religions of the east buddhism, hinduism etc. The beatles for example, went to india and suddenly decided they liked the religion. Groups like hare krishna: started in ny and thought prophets were recreations of krishna. Their religious meaning gets stripped and becomes just a religious sect in the us. New religious movements bind together with things like paganism. Has issues with authenticity it was a mix with things like nativism. Things like bad vibes" are actually derived from the new age movement.
