The liberal religion of the 1960s produced an ever increasing set of options for Americans to choose from in order to meet their spiritual needs. A move away from traditional doctrine, the multiple mergers among mainline denominations combined with new family structures and new types of American values created a religious landscape that rejected more fundamentalist theology. Instead, this decade welcomed in an era of existentialist thought and new age religions influenced by the counter-culture and political movements of civil rights, women’s rights and anti-war demonstrations.
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