Word: worshipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happens, some other Christians are concerned about the money that U.S. churches are putting into imposing temples of worship. Last month a group of seminarians from the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland demonstrated in front of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, protesting the $25 million that has been earmarked to com plete the huge basilica. Some Episcopalians have publicly questioned whether their church ought to spend any more money on the impressive Washington Cathedral, which has cost $30 million since it was started 60 years ago, and will need at least $20 million more...
There is also plenty of plain, garden-variety superstition in the hippie faith witnessed by their interest in ouija boards, numerology, tarot cards, palmistry, mind reading and astrology. Some communities are very keen on nature worship, and hold outdoor ceremonies honoring the onset of the winter and summer solstices. Black magic is very In among some hippies, as is Devil worship; there are even a few witches and warlocks around Hashbury ready to celebrate Black Masses in praise of Satan...
...psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu word signifying "the ultimate religion...
...current issue of Playboy. "It has its evangelists, its sacred grottoes, its exuberant converts." He suggests that the hippies' quest for warmth and love is a warning to Christianity. Other churchmen quite rightly question the spiritual validity of an undigested mixture of drug-induced visions, skimmed Orientalism and nature worship. Even Cox concedes that the hippies' "confused and eclectic" theology contains "very little corrective to just plain self-indulgence...
...charge that American parents are flunking the job is to ignore the stunning fact that most American youngsters now work harder, think deeper, love more and even look better than any previous generation. Other cultures worship gods or ancestors; Americans revere children, and they must be doing something right in the process. "Everything for the kids" is a U.S. creed that moves G.I.s to feed every war waif in sight; that goads concern for the country's ghetto schools; that has already provided most American children with the best medical care, free education, anti-child-labor laws and unparalleled...