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The '''Characterization of 1960s student unrest''' by several leading scholars is that of a religious movement. This period of social turmoil has been compared to the [[Protestant Reformation]], "the search for the sacred," and the fourth [[Great Awakening]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=VpafCAIMCowC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Faith+and+Knowledge#PPA152,M1 ''Faith and Knowledge''], [[Douglas M. Sloan|Douglas Sloan]], Westminster John Knox Press, 1994, ISBN 0664228666, 272 pages, p. 152</ref> Religious movements can increase or decrease the overall level of [[evil]] in the world.  This period is noted for [[LSD]], [[pot-smoking]], [[Che Guevara]], [[communes]], [[promiscuity]], and various humanistic psychologies. According to the Columbia University professor [[Douglas M. Sloan|Douglas Sloan]], two somewhat left-leaning scholars [[Theodore Roszak]] in his 1969 ''The Making of a Counter Culture'' and [[Jacob Needleman]] in his 1970 ''The New Religions'' attempted to find the silver lining in this storm of unrest.  Despite their [[liberal]] tendencies, according to Sloan, they both rejected its drug culture as a metaphorical death sentence and insisted on clear reason, even while they called for a rejection of much of science in popular thinking.

The '''Characterization of 1960s student unrest''' by several leading scholars is that of a religious movement. This period of social turmoil has been compared to the [[Protestant Reformation]], "the search for the sacred," and the fourth [[Great Awakening]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=VpafCAIMCowC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Faith+and+Knowledge#PPA152,M1 ''Faith and Knowledge''], [[Douglas M. Sloan|Douglas Sloan]], Westminster John Knox Press, 1994, ISBN 0664228666, 272 pages, p. 152</ref> Religious movements can increase or decrease the overall level of [[evil]] in the world.  This period is noted for [[LSD]], [[pot-smoking]], hero-worshipping [[Che Guevara]], [[communes]], [[promiscuity]], and various humanistic psychologies. According to the Columbia University professor [[Douglas M. Sloan|Douglas Sloan]], two somewhat left-leaning scholars [[Theodore Roszak]] in his 1969 ''The Making of a Counter Culture'' and [[Jacob Needleman]] in his 1970 ''The New Religions'' attempted to find the silver lining in this storm of unrest.  Despite their [[liberal]] tendencies, according to Sloan, they both rejected its drug culture as a metaphorical death sentence and insisted on clear reason, even while they called for a rejection of much of science in popular thinking.

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