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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 64
الصفحة 95
Scepticism then becomes based in a priori assumptions rather than evidence , a position which Marcello Truzzi defined as pseudoscepticism.50 In that much of the criticism of astrology emerges from an a priori position ( that is ...
Scepticism then becomes based in a priori assumptions rather than evidence , a position which Marcello Truzzi defined as pseudoscepticism.50 In that much of the criticism of astrology emerges from an a priori position ( that is ...
الصفحة 186
The position , as we can see , is complex , and subject to multiple , overlapping narratives . We can identify major trends . There is clear evidence of the privatisation hypothesis in which secularisation becomes not the decline of ...
The position , as we can see , is complex , and subject to multiple , overlapping narratives . We can identify major trends . There is clear evidence of the privatisation hypothesis in which secularisation becomes not the decline of ...
الصفحة 206
or some other condition which prompts a perverse refusal to acknowledge the evidence . No educated , psychologically balanced , socially integrated person , the argument runs , could possibly believe in it .
or some other condition which prompts a perverse refusal to acknowledge the evidence . No educated , psychologically balanced , socially integrated person , the argument runs , could possibly believe in it .
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
المحتوى
A MillionDollar Business? | 1 |
The Pursuit of the Millennium | 13 |
The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
حقوق النشر | |
12 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acceptance accessed actually affiliation Age Movement Age of Aquarius Alan amongst answers argued argument asked astrology's attitudes Bailey become belief in astrology Campion cent century Christian church claimed coming concerned conference Consciousness considered contemporary context culture David defined definition discussion divine esoteric evidence example existence experience figures future Gallup History horoscope columns human ideas identified indicate individual influence interest Journal levels literature London Marxism matter means nature notion opinion origin Oxford Paranormal popular positive practice prediction Press problem psychological question reason relation relationship religion religious represented respondents response Robert Rudhyar sample sceptical scientific sense social Society spiritual stars statement suggests sun-sign theory theosophical thought tradition true understanding University Western whole wrote York zodiac
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology, and the New Age Movement |
| المؤلف | Nicholas Campion |
| الناشر | Ashgate, 2012 |
| أصلي من | جامعة كاليفورنيا، بيركلي |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 26 شباط (فبراير) 2016 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1409435148, 9781409435143 |
| عدد الصفحات | 254 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |