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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... associated with millenarianism. FromtheGreek word eschaton, the end, we derive the term 'eschatology', which literally means the study of ends, but is alsousedto imply actual belief intheend of theworld. From apocalypse, the Greek for ...
... associated with the coming of the Age of Aquarius. Thetwinconcepts ofthe Sun as the origin ofall male ... Society in New Yorkin 1875.The society is themostimportant single institutional influence on the New Age movement, partly because ...
... astrology. By 1940 the following slogan had beenadded totheback coverof the magazine Astrology, the quarterly journal ofthe Astrological Lodgeofthe Theosophical Society, founded by Leoin1915: Astrology is no mere system of ...
... astrological associations ofeach sign or constellation. This system of what Collingwood would call quasihistory was givenits most comprehensive treatment in VeraReid's Towards Aquarius, publishedin 1944.Reid's system, in turn, provided ...
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