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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... that ' It is drivel because it flies in the face of four centuries of evidence , from Galileo to the latest space probe'.1o One may ask why , if it is drivel , it arouses such anger , and why one part of British media regulation regards ...
... that ' It is drivel because it flies in the face of four centuries of evidence , from Galileo to the latest space probe'.1o One may ask why , if it is drivel , it arouses such anger , and why one part of British media regulation regards ...
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... that it cannot be used to demonstrate an astrological relationship , and positive results must therefore , of necessity , be spurious and should not be published . This is not so much scepticism as negative dogmatism and is derived from ...
... that it cannot be used to demonstrate an astrological relationship , and positive results must therefore , of necessity , be spurious and should not be published . This is not so much scepticism as negative dogmatism and is derived from ...
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... that it does work , but that it seems to , and this is all we need to explain ' belief ' in astrology . No psychological theory or social construct is necessary . Then we have to consider the claims that astrology is a religion , or ...
... that it does work , but that it seems to , and this is all we need to explain ' belief ' in astrology . No psychological theory or social construct is necessary . Then we have to consider the claims that astrology is a religion , or ...
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The Pursuit of the Millennium | 13 |
The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
The New | 29 |
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