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This chapter retells the story narrated in Chapter 4, but from a cultural sociological perspective which is sensitive to the fact that modern societies are institutionally—and thereby morally—differentiated. Treating the 1960s counter-culture as a set of expressive institutions, the chapter makes clear how counter-culturalists launched a moral crusade against the competing economic and legal-political spheres of Western liberal democracies. It then demonstrates how the counter-culture successfully transformed the private sphere, while also reforming the legal-political sphere, thereby giving life to a new social order—romantic liberal modernity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the moral, political, epistemic, and economic developments, which have precipitated not only the decline of Christendom, but also the flourishing of the religion of the heart. |
