"By far the most comprehensive and penetrating empirical study available of the religious aftermath of the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. The codirection and coeditorship of it by a leading survey researcher who has made many contributions to the study of religion and by an equally leading historical-comparative sociologist of religion who has done likewise makes it almost doubly valuable. The very differences between the two senior participants, stated in their respective interpretive final chapters, enhances the book's contribution to the growing discussion of what the movement was all about and what it portends for the future."—Talcott Parsons
 
"The best analysis of the growing new religious movements. This work should be read by all interested in religion in America."—Seymour Martin Lipset
 
"An important contribution to the study of contemporary American religion . . . likely to become a major point of reference for some time to come."—Peter L. Berger
 
"A range of sympathetic, readable, and highly informative essays on the new religious consciousness. It avoids condemning or praising but shows us who the various people and movements are and a little of what motivates them."—Harvey G. Cox