Religious Beliefs in a Tempest

1960-1970s

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”—F. Nietzsche

God Reasserted

• Vatican II (1962-1965)

• Catholic Traditionalist Movement

• National Conference on Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Chuch

• Humanae Vitae (1968)

Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)

Nation of Islam

• Wallace D. Fard (1893?-1934?)

• Elijah [Poole]Muhammad (1897-1975)

• Malcom [Little] X (1925-1965)

• James Forman (1928-2005) “Black Manifesto”

Religion in “Revolutionary” Times

• Alan Watts (1915-1973)

• Hare Krishna (1966-)

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918-2008)

• Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996)

A quest for the stable and the eternal

• Charles Ward “Chuck” Smith (1927-2013)

• Jesus People/Jesus Movement/Jesus Freaks

Feminist Theology

• Rosemary Radford Reuther (1936-

• Ordination issue

• Saney Eisenburg Sasso (1947-

• Sonia Johnson (1936-

Mormons for ERA founders Sonia Johnson, Maida Withers, Hazel Rigby, and Teddie Wood.

The enigma of Jimmy Carter

Rise of the Religious Right

• Paul Weyrich (1942-2008)

• Roe v. Wade

• Reaction to imagined 1960s

• Moral Majority

• Jerry Falwell (1933-2007)

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Karol Józef Wojtyła—John Paul II