The 1960s counterculture revolted against the values of the mainstream. Meditation, mysticism, TM , est. There was a hunger for mythos and a rejection of the scientific rationalism that had become the new Western Orthodoxy. This was not a rejection of rationalism per se, but of its more extreme forms (Who on the forum represents this extreme forms? Gilby? Gild? Are they the same?). --Karen Armstrong
Twentieth century science itself was cautious, sober, and highly conscious in a disciplined principled way of its limitations and areas of competence. But the prevailing mood of modernity had made science ideological and had refused to coutenance any other method of arriving at truth. During the 60s, the youth revolution was in part a protest against the illegitamate domination of rational language and the suppression of mythos by logos.
Karen Armstrong, in her history of fundamentalism [The Battle for God], sees this as the place where the fundamentalist in the USA were beginning to mobilize. They had often experienced modernity as an aggressive onslaught. The modern spirit had demanded freedom from the outmoded thought patterns of the past; the modern ideal of progress has entailed the elimation of theose beliefs, practices, and institutions that were deemed irrational and therefore retarding. Religious establishments and doctrines had often been key targets.