Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology, and the New Age MovementThis book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west. |
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As a matter of comparison , delegates at the NORWAC , AA and UAC conferences were asked a factual question – ' How is astrology defined ? ' - whereas at the Balkan and Norwegian conferences they were asked to rate agreement with ...
As a matter of comparison , delegates at the NORWAC , AA and UAC conferences were asked a factual question – ' How is astrology defined ? ' - whereas at the Balkan and Norwegian conferences they were asked to rate agreement with ...
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To define all astrology as religion , or as a new religious movement , runs counter to the evidence . 15 Neither does astrology conform to strict exclusivist definitions of religion . It has no organised church , set of dogma or ...
To define all astrology as religion , or as a new religious movement , runs counter to the evidence . 15 Neither does astrology conform to strict exclusivist definitions of religion . It has no organised church , set of dogma or ...
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Astrologers ' general resistance to the definition of astrology as religion is , as the Aquarian Age literature ... and as a rhetorical answer to astrology's scientific and religious critics ' external definitions of astrology as ...
Astrologers ' general resistance to the definition of astrology as religion is , as the Aquarian Age literature ... and as a rhetorical answer to astrology's scientific and religious critics ' external definitions of astrology as ...
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A MillionDollar Business? | 1 |
The Pursuit of the Millennium | 13 |
The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
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