Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 01/09/2012 - 224 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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... discipline , and meditation . The foundations for a new world order can be established ... [ through ] ... group work in preparation for the Aquarian Age ' ( Lucis Trust 1984 ) . Bailey's influence on both the New Age movement and ...
... Age ' is a useful description with wide public recognition , it does not tell the whole story . However , that modern astrology is in its entirety a New Age discipline , with no question over the meaning of the term , is assumed by most ...
... Age' and 'Old Age' astrologers is, though, one supported by various leading New Age apologists, including, as we ... discipline as a whole, and hence on the popular culture within which astrologers exist. The evidence suggests that ...
... Age ideology into astrology was an English commercial traveller called William Frederick Allen (1860–1917), who is ... discipline was precocious, and over the next forty years he worked ceaselessly to study it and understand its ...
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SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
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The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
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Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |