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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... occult influence of the stars, is a religion, nothing more, nothing less. Acceptance of astrology's claims is widespread and, according to Gallup poll data, about 25 per cent of the adult populations of the UK, the US and France ...
... Occult ( Welwyn , 1988 ) , and Robert A. Morey , Horoscopes and the Christian : Does Astrology Accurately Predict the Future ? Is it Compatible with Christianity ? ( Minneapolis , 1981 ) . For non - academic but sympathetic studies see ...
... occult and esoteric circles . This was the intellectual milieu in which H.P. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875. The society is the most important single institutional influence on the New Age movement ...
... Occult Sciences in the Renaissance : A Study in Intellectual Patterns ( Berkeley , Los Angeles and London , 1972 ) , p . 40 ; and for Campanella see Tester , A History , p . 214 . " Nicholas Campion , ' Prophecy , Cosmology and the New ...
... Occult Meditation ( 1922 ) and The Consciousness of the Atom , and her classes on the Secret Doctrine , resulted in the formation of the Arcane School in April 1923 , with the nucleus of the meditation group functioning as collaborators ...
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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 | |