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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... astrologers use for themselves , as opposed to those which may be allocated to them by academics or external critics.18 Yet the study of astrology's contemporary cultural status may shed light on the condition of modern society as a ...
... astrologer is an observer , dispassionately analysing the manifestation of astrological principles in terrestrial affairs . In other versions , which have been carried into the modern world via Neoplatonism , the astrologer is ...
... astrology bunk ? ' , Daily Mail , 18 August 2003 . 14 See , for example , Gordon Lynch , Understanding Theology and ... Modern Astrology ( London , 2000 ) . 17 T.J. Gaynard , ' Young People and the Paranormal ' , Journal of the ...
... Astrology Today : A Socio - Psychological Survey , Astrological Research Associates Research Bulletin no . 2 ( New ... Modern Astrology : A Critique ' , at < http://www.astrology-and-science.com/a-conc2.htm > ( 2005 ) , accessed 3 ...
... Astrology's explanatory power may therefore emerge from the same source as other, similar meta-narratives. In this scheme astrology is sustained by the need for security and order in a world beset by potentially threatening change and ...
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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 | |
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Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |