May 18, 2007
'Hippies of the Religious Right'
To see Preston Shires's new book is to pick it up. As a title, Hippies of the Religious Right (Baylor University Press) is difficult to ignore.
Immediately come questions. Hippies? Christian right? Could the scholar mean preppies instead? He doesn't. Shaggy kids dance across the jacket in fringe and bead, signaling the subject: countercultural youth who later joined the Christian right.
The author, a historian at Southeast Community College, considers links between
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