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, understood this well enough when discussing the basis for belief in the coming New Age: 'as the term Age of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25 In the modern world, millenarianism has adopted a ...
... David Spangler , The Rebirth of the Sacred ( London , 1984 ) , p . 18 . 26 Cohn , The Pursuit , pp . 108–9 ; see also Michael J. St Clair , Millenarian Movements in Historical Context ( New York and London , 1992 ) , pp . 223–337 . 27 ...
... David Spangler wrote that ' For each of us the New Age is here now . It has always been here ' . In this sense , the New Age constitutes an eternal present which is removed from the world of time and material change , much as in Plato's ...
... David Spangler , the prolific author whose books Festivals in the New Age ( 1975 ) and Revelation : The Birth of a New Age ( 1976 ) brought the term ' New Age ' to wider attention in counter - cultural , esoteric and spiritual groups ...
... David Spangler when he wrote, 'God is the New Age, the original and only New Age, the Spirit that makes all things new'.40 2. Following directly from the idea of the inner divine is the implication that the individual is the highest ...
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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 | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |