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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... esoteric and spiritual groups; also his colleagueand collaborator, Sir George Trevelyan, who contributed English upperclass gravitas, andthe writer and teacher William Bloom. The term 'New Age' is used in two ways. It is both the future ...
... esoteric circles in the early twentieth century, combined with countercultural radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s, and became commercialised in the 1980s. The label was then simultaneously rejected by many of its proponents while many of ...
... esoteric secularism of the late eighteenth century and a parallel history in the theosophical millenarianism ofthe 1890s and 1900s, but they arenot identical. The New Age may be located sometimes (although notalways) imaginatively in ...