Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short life, hippiedom has created not only its own language, music, art and dress style, but even its own religion. Denning it, however, is not easy, since the hippie faith is a weird blend of superstition and spirituality that spans continents and centuries...
...thing hippie religion is not is Judaeo-Christian in outlook. Jesus may be revered as the hip guru of his time who preached a primitive form of love power, but Western churches are generally abhorred by the hippies as irrelevant and square. Instead, they display a considerable interest in the occult on the theory that the important levels of spiritual consciousness are those that lie beyond man's reason. "Christ studied the occult," contends one Los Angeles believer, explaining dubiously that "he learned to walk on water...
Aeschylus to Altizer. Scott, who has a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University, is a leading exemplar of a fast-growing speciality in U.S. seminaries and universities: the joint study of literature and theology. Pioneered by Chicago, which inaugurated its first course in the field in 1950, literature-and-theol-ogy is now being offered by eight other U.S. universities and divinity schools...
...explicate as a critic. Says Chicago's Scott: "The great canon of modern literature is a repository of an enormously profound insight into what it means to be human. It is through the study of literature that some of the most genuine and revealing points of contact between religion and art are likely to be found in our time...
...American humor: a healthy irreverence for pomp and position. And they both succeeded by pitching their personalities across the footlights to touch their listeners with something close to folk wisdom. Some of Hope's lines even sound like Will Rogers'. "I like to see politicians with religion," he says. "It keeps their hands out where we can see them...