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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... New Age 5 End Times: The New Age and the Age of Aquarius 6 The Writing of Heaven: New Age Astrology 7 Oracles to the Vulgar: Sun-Sign Astrology 8 An Evolutionary Paradox: The Survival of Belief in Astrology 9 Salvation and the Stars ...
... New Age Movement'. The prophecy under investigation is the coming of the often synonymous periods of the Age of Aquarius and the New Age. The cosmology under examination is astrology, especially in its assumption that great historical ...
... New Age discipline and, if so, what is its relationship with the Western millenarian and apocalyptic tradition? Secondly, if astrology is a New Age discipline, should it be seen as a rival to mainstream Christianity, as so many ...
... New Age and astrological culture. My fieldwork is tentative and preliminary and far from conclusive. It is, rather, suggestive, of possibilities for further work. As my inquiry is partly literary, and as this is the first time that the ...
... New Age movement as a whole to be post-modern, although he offers no explanation for this.40 Paul Heelas, meanwhile, considers the New Age movement in its counter-cultural aspects, and hence astrology, which he includes as New Age, as ...
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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 | |