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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... Oxford University , believes that astrologers should be prosecuted for fraud , while the British television regulatory code prohibits the broadcast of ' horoscopes ' except as ' entertainment ' or as the subject of ' legitimate inquiry ...
... (Oxford, 2006); Nicholas Campion, Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions (New York, 2012); Nicholas Campion and Liz Greene, Astrologies: Plurality and Diversity (Lampeter, 2011). 4 The population of the UK in 2008 was just over ...
... ( Oxford , 2005 ) . 15 Shoshanah Feher , ' Who Holds the Cards ? Women and New Age Astrology ? ' , in James R. Lewis ... ( Oxford , 1994 ) , p . 68 ; Bryan Wilson , Contemporary Transformations of Religion ( Oxford , 1979 ) , p . 3 ...
... Ma'shar ' , Early Science and Medicine , 7/3 ( 2002 ) , pp . 203–4 . 31 1989 ) . Patrick Curry , Prophecy and Power : Astrology in Early Modern England ( Oxford , 32 Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge, 2006),
... The Paranormal, its Defenders and Debunkers and American Culture (Madison WI, 1993), p. 6. 41 Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement (Oxford, 1996), pp. 23, 24, 138. Marquis de Condorcet , Sketch for a Historical Picture of.
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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 | |