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Book Daughters of Aquarius

Download or read book Daughters of Aquarius written by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus specifically on the women of the counterculture movement reveals how hippie women launched a subtle rebellion by by rejecting their mothers' suburban domesticity in favor of their grandmothers' agrarian ideals, which assigned greater value to women's contributions.

Book Evangelical Worship

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  • Author : Melanie C. Ross
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0197530753
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Evangelical Worship written by Melanie C. Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Almost invariably, media stories with the word evangelical in their headlines are accompanied by a familiar stock photo: a mass of middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky. Yet, despite the fact that worship has become symbolic of evangelicalism's identity in the twenty-first century, it remains an understudied locus of academic inquiry. Historians of American evangelicalism tend to define the movement by its political entanglements (the "rise of the religious Right"), and academic trajectories (the formation of the "evangelical mind"), not its ecclesial practices. Theological scholars frequently dismiss evangelical worship as a reiteration of nineteenth-century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment (three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk). But by failing to engage this worship seriously, we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic models a new way forward. Drawing together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies, and putting both in conversation with ethnographic fieldwork in seven congregations, this book argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral "extra" tacked on to a fully-formed spiritual/political/cultural movement, but rather the crucible through which congregations forge and negotiate the contours of evangelicalism's contested theological identity"--

Book American Hippies

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  • Author : W. J. Rorabaugh
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-17
  • ISBN : 1316299023
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book American Hippies written by W. J. Rorabaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including psychedelic drugs, casual sex, and rock music, as well as the phenomena of spiritual seeking, hostility to politics, and communes. W. J. Rorabaugh synthesizes how hippies strived for authenticity, expressed individualism, and yearned for community. Viewing the tumultuous Sixties from a new angle, Rorabaugh shows how the counterculture led to subsequent social and cultural changes in the United States with legacies including casual sex, natural foods, and even the personal computer.

Book Hidden Harmonies

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  • Author : Paula J. Bishop
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2023-05-18
  • ISBN : 1496845420
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Hidden Harmonies written by Paula J. Bishop and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Christina Baade, Candace Bailey, Paula J. Bishop, Maribeth Clark, Brittany Greening, Tammy Kernodle, Kendra Preston Leonard, April L. Prince, Travis D. Stimeling, and Kristen M. Turner For every star, there are hundreds of less-recognized women who contribute to musical communities, influencing their aesthetics and expanding opportunities available to women. Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment focuses not on those whose names are best known nor most celebrated but on the women who had power in collective or subversive ways hidden from standard histories. Contributors to Hidden Harmonies reexamine primary sources using feminist and queer methodologies as well as critical race theory in order to overcome previous, biased readings. The scholarship that results from such reexaminations explores topics from songwriters to the music of the civil rights movement and from whistling schools to musical influencers. These wide-ranging essays create a diverse and novel view of women's contribution to music and its production. With intelligence and care, Hidden Harmonies uncovers the fascinating figures behind decades of popular music.

Book Psychedelic New York

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  • Author : Chris Elcock
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2023-05-15
  • ISBN : 0228018048
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Psychedelic New York written by Chris Elcock and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history – one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A major hub for the production and consumption of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, New York spawned a unique psychedelic culture that reverberated through the city, from psychoanalytic circles to artists’ studios, Greenwich Village to Central Park. Based on years of archival research, interviews with former acid heads, and a range of cultural artifacts, Psychedelic New York shows how the postwar city was at the forefront of LSD medical research, the burgeoning of psychedelic art, drug-accompanied spiritual seeking, and a proliferation of drug subcultures. Elcock recounts stories of New Yorkers such as Holocaust survivor Nina Graboi and artist Isaac Abrams, whose lives were dramatically altered by their psychedelic experiences, while offering new insights into Timothy Leary’s role in turning on the city with psilocybin. Enlivened by personal stories and rooted in thoughtful analysis, Psychedelic New York is a multifaceted history of LSD and the urban psychedelic experience.

Book The Theosophist

Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Transatlantic Sixties

Download or read book The Transatlantic Sixties written by Grzegorz Kosc and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.

Book A Little Zodiac Book  Baby Gemini

Download or read book A Little Zodiac Book Baby Gemini written by Daria Harper and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This astrology-focused board book explores one of twelve zodiac signs, offering an accessible, sweet introduction to a baby's first horoscope"--

Book Fault Lines

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  • Author : Gus diZerega
  • Publisher : Quest Books
  • Release : 2013-10-14
  • ISBN : 0835630897
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Fault Lines written by Gus diZerega and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War—politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes. He traces the disruption, first, to America's first countercultural movement originating in the antebellum South and coming into later conflict with the "counterculture" of the 60s that continues now in phenomena like Burning Man; and second, to the crumbling of the moral foundation birthed by the Enlightenment, leading to today’s nihilism. But within the loss resides hope: diZerega sees promise of a new society based more in equality, sacred feminine values, and spiritual immanence. Whether the prevailing oligarchy will abort this transformation is the question of our time. This book enables those of us now living through it to understand the powerful forces shaping our lives and calling on us for a response.

Book Creepy Crawling

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  • Author : Jeffrey Melnick
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 1628728949
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Creepy Crawling written by Jeffrey Melnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for close to fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. Even now, it is almost impossible to discuss the sixties, teenage runaways, sexuality, drugs, music, California, and even the concept of family without referencing Manson and his "girls." Not just another history of Charles Manson, Creepy Crawling explores how the Family weren't so much outsiders but emblematic of the Los Angeles counterculture freak scene, and how Manson worked to connect himself to the mainstream of the time. Ever since they spent two nights killing seven residents of Los Angeles—what we now know as the "Tate-LaBianca murders"—the Manson family has rarely slipped from the American radar for long. From Emma Cline's The Girls to the recent TV show Aquarius, the family continues to find an audience. What is it about Charles Manson and his family that captivates us still? Author Jeffrey Melnick sets out to answer this question in this fascinating and compulsively readable cultural history of the Family and their influence from 1969 to the present.

Book Prairie Power

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  • Author : Sarah Eppler Janda
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 0806160659
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Prairie Power written by Sarah Eppler Janda and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student radicals and hippies—in Oklahoma? Though most scholarship about 1960s-era student activism and the counterculture focuses on the East and West Coasts, Oklahoma’s college campuses did see significant activism and “dropping out.” In Prairie Power, Sarah Eppler Janda fills a gap in the historical record by connecting the activism of Oklahoma students and the experience of hippies to a state and a national history from which they have been absent. Janda shows that participants in both student activism and retreat from conformist society sought connections to Oklahoma’s past while forging new paths for themselves. She shows that Oklahoma students linked their activism with the grassroots socialist radicalism and World War I–era anti-draft protest of their grandparents’ generation, citing Woody Guthrie, Oscar Ameringer, and the Wobblies as role models. Many movement organizers in Oklahoma, especially those in the University of Oklahoma’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-war movement, fit into a larger midwestern and southwestern activist mentality of “prairie power”: a blend of free-speech advocacy, countercultural expression, and anarchist tendencies that set them apart from most East Coast student activists. Janda also reveals the vehemence with which state officials sought to repress campus “agitators,” and discusses Oklahomans who chose to retreat from the mainstream rather than fight to change it. Like their student activist counterparts, Oklahoma hippies sought inspiration from older precedents, including the back-to-the-land movement and the search for authenticity, but also Christian evangelicalism and traditional gender roles. Drawing on underground newspapers and declassified FBI documents, as well as interviews the author conducted with former activists and government officials, Prairie Power will appeal to those interested in Oklahoma’s history and the counterculture and political dissent in the 1960s.

Book Baby Astrology  Dear Little Aries

Download or read book Baby Astrology Dear Little Aries written by Roxy Marj and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what makes every Aries baby special! This perfect book for your little star is part of a gorgeous and 100% giftable 12-book astrology board book series that shares gentle thoughts about the characteristics of a child born under each star sign. Dear Little Aries, Did you know that you are adventurous, determined, and confident? . . . Every Aries baby and toddler (born Mar. 21-Apr. 19) is going to need this charming, gentle board book that allows grown-ups and children to share the many lovely qualities that make each Aries kid special. Little ones--just like adults--will love knowing what the traits of their star sign are, all the while learning that they are unique, wonderful, and--above all--so loved. The absolute perfect gift for baby showers, first birthdays, and any time a baby is celebrated, the Baby Astrology series lets little ones know that they are ALL stars.

Book Califia s Daughter

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  • Author : Devorah Major
  • Publisher : Willow Publishing
  • Release : 2020-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781733089890
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Califia s Daughter written by Devorah Major and published by Willow Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry collection by devorah major, third San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Book The Quotable Aquarius

Download or read book The Quotable Aquarius written by Mary Valby and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quotable Aquarius describes the innovative, objective Aquarius personality with more than 600 quotes and examples from famous Aquarians Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Oprah Winfrey, Justin Timberlake and more. Material is organized by Aquarian traits like Individuality, Vision, and Erratic Behavior and includes more than a dozen Aquarian specialties such as more U.S. Presidents and more superstar athletes than any other zodiac sign. The book includes more than 75 Aquarian leaders, 150 Aquarian artists, 100 Aquarian athletes, and 150 famous Aquarian relationships.

Book Wisdom s Daughters

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  • Author : Cathy Pagano
  • Publisher : Balboa Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1452565821
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Wisdom s Daughters written by Cathy Pagano and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdom is Women’s Gift to the World. In the many cultural stories that speak about the changing of the ages, it is always Feminine Spirit which brings about the transition to new life, for Feminine Spirit knows the rhythms of life, death, and rebirth and is the “opener of the way.” In times of cultural transformation, it is also our right-brain, feminine consciousness that is our best guide, for it opens us to the creative imagination, the realm of possibility. The return of the Goddess awakens the transformative energy that births the changing of the ages. In the western story of worldwide spiritual transformation, there is a powerful image of Cosmic Woman, an image of the archetypal Feminine Spirit who transforms and gives birth to this new age. And her archetypal image gives us instructions for opening to and incarnating wisdom. This image of the awakening Feminine Spirit is an image of the Conscious Woman: a woman, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon, crowned with stars, who is in labor, giving birth to a savior. In earlier times and different traditions, this archetypal image was understood as Lady Wisdom. Today I feel this Goddess image of conscious woman can be incarnated by women everywhere. This woman clothed with the sun is Lady Wisdom, who calls all women to become her daughters. “I love Cathy’s insights into fairy tales, mythology, dreams, astrological energies, and archetypes. She makes sense of how our lives are impacted by these complex yet very beautiful elements, making them accessible and keeping them profound. Her wisdom can only enhance anyone lucky enough to have crossed her path.” —Alix Toland, Artist & Creator of Color-Scope: An Astrological Mandala

Book The Hippies

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Anthony Moretta
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 1476627398
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book The Hippies written by John Anthony Moretta and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and "make love not war" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world and remains influential. The political and cultural institutions that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian hippie principles led an era of civic protest that brought an end to the Vietnam War. Their enduring impact was the creation of a 1960s frame of reference among millions of baby boomers, whose attitudes and aspirations continue to reflect the hip ethos of their youth.

Book Aquarius Women

Download or read book Aquarius Women written by Hilary Davies and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: