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Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties
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The Long Sixties (1955–1973) were a period of economic prosperity, political unrest, sexual liberation, cultural experimentation, and profound religious innovation throughout the Western world. This social effervescence also affected the study of religion by reshaping the relationships between academic and religious institutions and discourses. While the mainstream churches sought to deploy the instruments of the social sciences to understand and manage the changing socioreligious context, prominent scholars regarded the bubbly spirituality of the counterculture as the harbinger of a new era; some of them actively used their academic knowledge to further this revolution. This book discusses the multiple entanglements of religion and science during these turbulent decades through theoretically informed case studies from both sides of the Atlantic.
Andrea Rota, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of the Study of Religion at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo. He is the author of Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research (Bloomsbury 2023).
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1 Introduction: Religion, Academia, and Society in the Long Sixties
Andrea Rota
2 From Restauration to Renewal: Shifting Perceptions of Ecclesiastical Policy Formation in the Long Sixties
Chris Dols
3 Planning the Present by Examining the Future: Prospective Thinking in the Swiss Catholic Church during the Long Sixties
Simon Michel
4 The Development of the Sociology of Religion in Quebec: Raymond Lemieux’s Quiet Revolutions
François Gauthier and Jean-Philippe Perreault
5 Expertise on NRMs in Switzerland: An Interstitial Space between the Religious and Scientific Fields
Christina Wyttenbach
6 Robert N. Bellah and the New Religious Consciousness
W. Michael Ashcraft
7 The Religion of Love: Talcott Parsons and the Expressive Revolution
Rafael Walthert
8 Acid Scholarship: Timothy Leary and the Academic Background of Psychedelic Occulture
Andrea Rota
9 Runner’s High: Conceptual Diffusion of Peak Experience in the US Human Potential and Jogging Movements
Bernadett Bigalke, Jasmin Eder, and Sebastian Schüler
10 The Lust for Order in History: Axiality in the “Long Sixties”
David Atwood
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Religion, Academia, and Society in the Long Sixties
Andrea Rota
2 From Restauration to Renewal: Shifting Perceptions of Ecclesiastical Policy Formation in the Long Sixties
Chris Dols
3 Planning the Present by Examining the Future: Prospective Thinking in the Swiss Catholic Church during the Long Sixties
Simon Michel
4 The Development of the Sociology of Religion in Quebec: Raymond Lemieux’s Quiet Revolutions
François Gauthier and Jean-Philippe Perreault
5 Expertise on NRMs in Switzerland: An Interstitial Space between the Religious and Scientific Fields
Christina Wyttenbach
6 Robert N. Bellah and the New Religious Consciousness
W. Michael Ashcraft
7 The Religion of Love: Talcott Parsons and the Expressive Revolution
Rafael Walthert
8 Acid Scholarship: Timothy Leary and the Academic Background of Psychedelic Occulture
Andrea Rota
9 Runner’s High: Conceptual Diffusion of Peak Experience in the US Human Potential and Jogging Movements
Bernadett Bigalke, Jasmin Eder, and Sebastian Schüler
10 The Lust for Order in History: Axiality in the “Long Sixties”
David Atwood
Index
The book is suited for an academic audience in the study of religion, including specialists as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Historians and sociologists will also find valuable insights.