Evangelicalism in second half of 1900s
The Moral Majority
What was started in 1979, dissolved in the late 1980s, and led into The Religious Right?
Billy Graham
-Who lived 1918-2018?
-had his heyday in the late 20th century?
-was spiritual advisor to several presidents in a row?
-was hired in 1946 by Youth for Christ as a full-time evangelist, already an accomplished preacher?
-toured the US and internationally?
-preached a simple message: repent of your sins, ask Jesus into your heart, and you will be saved?
-started becoming popular in 1949?
-often talked about Christ's return?
J. Z. Knight
-Who was born in 1946?
-focuses on central element of Ramtha divinity of the self?
-started Ramtha in 177 and made him public in 1978?
-conducts classes, group teach gins, and seminars for people around the world?
Remixed religion
-What rejects authorities, creeds, institutions, and moral universalism?
-wants to choose (more often than not, mix and match) their religions?
-is composed of SBNRs (Spiritual But Not Religious), spiritual but completely religiously unaffiliated, and those who say perhaps they belong to a given religion but take out and add things as it suits them?
-fulfills the general requirements for a religion: purpose, meaning, community, and ritual?
the New Age movement
-what believes in astrology, reincarnation, physics, and existence of spiritual energy in physical objects?
-is often incorporated into Christianity?
-have a DIY, problems are out there attitude?
-Promotes self-reliance and emotional authenticity over institutions, which are seen as at best misguided at worst, evil?
-> 1 mil. practicioners?
-believes in single source of divine energy through all people?
-has gotten less white and less heterosexual than in its heyday, during the '60s and '70s?
-has overall themes of monistic view of world, self-fashioned, eclectic religions, focus on practices and avoidance of morality, consumerist/divinizes human desires?