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M. Shipley

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‘A critique of culture’: Alan Watts, psychedelic Buddhism, and religious play in postwar America

Self & Society October 2, 2017 M. Shipley 1 citation

Heralded as a time of economic prosperity, the post-World War II period in America also experienced extraordinary religious awakenings of born-again evangelicalism, Prosperity Gospels, and an apocalyptic flare rendered palpable by atomic bombs and the Cold War. Postwar Christianity found itself reinforcing neoliberalism, sanctifying standardizations accompanying technological routinization,...