"...now without a broadly accepted world-view..."

"Yet the Sixties were also the first postmodernist era. ...In those years the great modernist institutions, from university to established church and state, were challenged as never since the Enlightenment onset of modernism, and precisely on the grounds that their claims to be the last word of progress and the holders of the master keys were spurious. ...The emergent postmodern was now without a broadly accepted world-view that connected technology, politics and religion. Instead the world witnessed the flourishing of disparate ecological, feminist, and liberationist spiritualities, of mystical, shamanist, and occultist paths, of resurgent fundamentalisms and religious nationalisms. At the time the lack of a center seemed to be no great lack."

-- The Sixties Spiritual Awakening, American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern, Robert S. Ellwood, 1994, p. 331.