Sixties as a Secular Religion

Read as a discrete religious movement, the 1960s functioned like a creed: it converted adherents, produced rituals and moral grammar, and reshaped institutions — and leaving it can look like a religious conversion. Framing the Sixties this way makes individual memoirs (conversion narratives) useful data for understanding cultural shifts and backlash. — If we treat mass ideological shifts as religious phenomena, policy and cultural responses — from institutional reform to deconversion support — should be reframed accordingly.