abstract:The Jesus movement was a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within some strands of Protestantism.
Many parents and ministers harshly objected to Norman's use of the "devil's music, " but the children of the '70s JesusMovement found in him a radical hero.