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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... science ; it may be a matter of studying the supposed relationships between celestial and terrestrial events ; or it may require practical action . Such is the variety of astrological theories , practices and techniques around the world ...
... Science at 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 ...
... science students subscribed to some aspects of astrology, while some supposedly hard-headed businessmen now support a thriving market in 'financial astrology' ... Astrology supplements have been known to increase newspaper circulation ...
... the judicial variety, not the natural. Natural astrology has been generally, although not totally, appropriated by modern materialist science, through such phenomena as gravity , sun - spot cycles and circadian rhythms ,
... and the study of astrology's place in the modern world may have implications for our understanding of other aspects of culture which may not be as profound as they David J. Hess, Science in the New Age: The Paranormal,
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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 | |