About the Author

Timothy Miller is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of American Communes, 1860-1960: Bibliography; The Hippies and American Values; and editor of When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements and Americas Alternative Religions.

Reviews

[Having read this book] no one will ever again be able to say that the communal explosion of the sixties sprang full-grown like Athena from the brow of Zeus.-- "Lawrence Foster, author of Religion and Sexuality"