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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... Heelas, meanwhile, considers the New Age movement in its counter-cultural aspects, and hence astrology, which he includes as New Age, as an aspect of 'modernity in crisis'.41 My purpose is to consider whether astrology's continued ...
... Heelas and Linda Woodhead that, far from passing away, it is deeply embedded in Western culture: it has not died out but has gone mainstream.16 The theosophical prophecy that a New Age was about to begin required, within the framework ...
... Heelas, one of the first sociologists of religion in the field, New Age beliefs can be summed up as 'self-spirituality', and he sees it as based in the 'self-ethic', the need to take responsibility for one's own actions.41 Heelas refers ...
... Heelas , The New Age Movement ( Oxford , 1996 ) , p . 17 . 4 See Clarke Garrett , ' Swedenborg and the Mystical Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth Century England ' , Journal of the History of Ideas , 45 ( 1984 ) , p . 69. For ...
... Heelas, The New Age Movement, p. 34. 13 For example, the term 'New Age' appears neither in Charles Glock and Robert N. Bellah, The New Religious Consciousness (Berkeley, 1976), nor in Robert Wuthnow, The Consciousness Revolution ...
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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 | |