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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... Neoplatonism , the astrologer is psychically embedded in the cosmos and plays a vital role in the application of astrology to human affairs.29 Simply , astrology requires the presence of the astrologer . Whichever version of astrology ...
... Neoplatonic deist creator, rather than the personal Christian God.39 The monist nature of New Age theology, its assumption that the divine and the visible universe are one, was summed up by David Spangler when he wrote, 'God is the New ...
... Neoplatonic inclinations were better served by his membership of the discrete Universal Order , than of the Theosophical Society . Yet , while condemning popular belief in astrological ages , Carter did acknowledge that the Age of ...
... Neoplatonic astrologers of the late classical period and the Renaissance would all have understood this well enough ... Neoplatonists) produced an entirely new genre of astrology in which one's past and future lives might be ...
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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 | |