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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... David Spangler, understoodthis well enough when discussing thebasis for belief inthecoming New Age: 'asthe termAge of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25.
... David Spangler wrote that 'For eachof ustheNew Age is herenow. Ithas always been here'.7 Inthis sense, the New Age constitutes an eternal present which is removed from the worldoftime and material change, much as inPlato's cosmogony ...
... David Spangler, the prolific author whose books Festivalsin theNew Age (1975) and Revelation: The Birthof a NewAge (1976) brought the term 'New Age' to wider attentionin countercultural, esoteric and spiritual groups; also his ...
... David Spangler when he wrote, 'God is the New Age, the original and onlyNew Age,the Spirit that makes allthings new'.40 2. Following directly from the ideaof the inner divine is the implication that the individual is the highest ...
... David Spangler, A Pilgrim in Aquarius (Forres, 1996),p. 55. 15 William Irwin Thompson, 'Sixteen YearsoftheNew Age', inDavid Spangler and William IrwinThompson, Reimagination of theWorld: A Critiqueof theNew Age, Science, and Popular ...