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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... Bailey, borrowed their versionsofthe Age of Aquarius(although Steiner himself preferred to talk about the Age of Michael). In1910 Steiner wrote, 'There is much talk about periodsof transition ... human beings will slowly and gradually ...
... ,each according to his orher own capacity (TheWorkof the Astrological Lodgeof London,1940). Activism isalso evident in thewider culture within which much modern astrology is embedded. When Alice Bailey founded her theosophical.
... Bailey had discussed the importanceof the creation ofgroups in order tobring God's planinto being, and ... Bailey's work began in 1921 when she and her husband Foster, who was secretary of the Theosophical Associationof NewYork, formed ...
... Bailey estimated in 1951 that thirty thousand people had passed through the school and thatthere were'many hundreds ... Bailey's teachings, announced thatthe 'Lucis Trust isdedicated tothe establishment ofright human relations through ...
... Bailey andRudolf Steiner all deliberately set outto create organised movements with acommon setofgoals and, even ifwelook at wider NewAge culture as consisting ofseries of networks, itis stillperfectly possibletotalk ofa cultural ...