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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... astrology's modern status in a context which is wide enough to allow a better understanding of the recent history and present status of esoteric ideas, occult practices and alternative spiritualities, that potent cultural matrix which ...
... horoscope column in print and, in the last decade, on the web. What is at issue, though, is astrology's character. On this, opinions diverge. It is widely considered to be a feature of the Western esoteric tradition, a New Age belief or ...
... occult and esoteric circles . This was the intellectual milieu in which H.P. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875. The society is the most important single institutional influence on the New Age movement ...
... esoteric circles.9 That great populariser Helena Blavatsky regarded him as, if not an adept, at least 'the greatest among modern seers', and disseminated his ideas through the Theosophical Society.10 By the 1870s the term 'New Age' had ...
... esoteric and spiritual groups ; also his colleague and collaborator , Sir George Trevelyan , who contributed English upper - class gravitas , and the writer and teacher William Bloom . The term ' New Age ' is used in two ways . It is ...
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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 | |
percentages | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |