Counterculture

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Counterculture. The mainly middle-class, Western youth culture of the 1960s which opposed the rituals, forms, structures, ideologies, calculating rationality, and leadership of the wider society. It was from among these casualties of the counterculture that a number of new religions of total commitment, such as the Unification Church (see MOON, SUN MYUNG) and Hare Krishna (see INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY …), gained many of their first converts in the West.

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