Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture Yale University Press Oct. 2003 isbn: 0300100248 $30.00 Other Books by Mark Oppenheimer

Harvard Book Store Author Series Presents:

Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Friday, October 31st Mark Oppenheimer will be reading from his new book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture. What happened to American religion during the cultural revolution of the sixties and early seventies? The era has long been associated with Eastern religions and fringe cults. But in Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Mark Oppenheimer describes how many Americans brought the counterculture with them to their churches and temples, forever changing the face of American religion.

Author Biography:

Mark Oppenheimer has taught at Wesleyan and Stanford Universities. He was the religion writer for the Hartford Courant, and his writing has also appeared in Harper’s and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and American Scholar. He lives in New Haven.