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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... Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in New Yorkin 1875.The society is themostimportant single institutional influence on the New Age movement, partly because ofits global reach, from the US toFrance, the UK, Germany and India ...
... Blavatsky set out hertheory of cyclical history,in which complex patterns of cycles regulate a cosmos inwhich physical evolutionis dependent on spiritual evolution.10 In her own words, Therevolution of the physical world, according to ...
... Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (2 vols, Los Angeles, 1982), vol. 1, p.641. 11 Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, p. 641. 12Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, p. 653. 13Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 438 ...
... Blavatsky regarded himas,if notan adept,atleast 'the greatest among modern seers', and disseminated his ideas through the Theosophical Society.10 Bythe 1870s the term 'NewAge' had become an establishedmetaphor for the Swedenborgian ...
... Blavatsky, 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 ...