Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology, and the New Age MovementAshgate, 2012 - 254 من الصفحات This 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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... existence , while the latter is rooted in the Swedenborgian prophecy that the coming age is to be more spiritual than the last , and the Blavatskyan notion that it will begin the ascent to humanity's final reintegration with the cosmos ...
... existence , while the latter is rooted in the Swedenborgian prophecy that the coming age is to be more spiritual than the last , and the Blavatskyan notion that it will begin the ascent to humanity's final reintegration with the cosmos ...
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... Existence of the Supernatural ( London , 1981 ) , p . 89 ; Richard Dawkins , Unweaving the Rainbow ( London , 1998 ) , p . 122 ; Susan Blackmore , The Meme Machine ( Oxford , 1999 ) , p . 184 ; Geoffrey Dean and Ivan Kelly , ' Is ...
... Existence of the Supernatural ( London , 1981 ) , p . 89 ; Richard Dawkins , Unweaving the Rainbow ( London , 1998 ) , p . 122 ; Susan Blackmore , The Meme Machine ( Oxford , 1999 ) , p . 184 ; Geoffrey Dean and Ivan Kelly , ' Is ...
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... existence : religion could not be destroyed until it was first identified as a distinct form of activity , unrelated to the rest of mundane existence . For eighteenth - century radicals such an exercise followed naturally from several ...
... existence : religion could not be destroyed until it was first identified as a distinct form of activity , unrelated to the rest of mundane existence . For eighteenth - century radicals such an exercise followed naturally from several ...
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The Pursuit of the Millennium | 13 |
The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
The New | 29 |
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