RIGHTEOUS BY LAUREN SANDLER

RIGHTEOUS   In Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement by Lauren Sandler (2006, Hardcover) Product Information:There's a new youth movement afoot in this country. It's a counterculture fusion of politics and pop, and it's taking over a high school near you. Like the waves that came before it, it's got passion, music, and anti-authority posturing, but more than anything else, this one has God. So what does it mean when today's youth counterculture has a mindset more akin to Jerry Falwell's than Abbie Hoffman's? In RIGHTEOUS: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, Lauren Sandler, a dynamic young journalist, reports from this junction of Evangelicalism and youth culture, traveling across the country to investigate the alternative Christian explosion. Using the grassroots modus operandi of the 1960s, these religious kids- part of the "Disciple Generation" as Sandler calls it - turn an anti-authoritarian sneer toward liberalism, feminism, pacifism, and every other