Fourth Great Awakening

The Fourth Great Awakening is a religious awakening that some scholars believe took place in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It should be noted that this terminology is controversial -- many historians believe that the religious changes that took place during these years in the U.S. were not part of an "awakening", to be understood like the first three awakenings. Thus, the idea of a Fourth Great Awakening itself has not been generally accepted.

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United States - 1960s - 1970s

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Some historians believe that widespread religious awakenings occur with some regularity in the United States and would expect one such awakening to have taken place in in the mid-20th Century. For these historians and scholars, the most likely candidate for such an awakening took place is during the 1960s and early 1970s: the hippie, or counterculture movement(s).

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20th Century - 1960s - 1970s - Hippie - Counterculture

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