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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... society is immune to its attraction.1 Astrology is ... a bizarre survival from prescientific times.2 Astrology – the study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and eventson earth – hasmillions offans, a ...
... society as a whole. As Grace Davie has argued, 'by looking at the way that society reacts tonew religious movements and the controversy they generate, we can discover more aboutthat society itself'. And what if astrology is a religion ...
... society andtheirplace inthe cosmos. Eventhough qualitative andquantitative research are often thought to belongtodifferent research categories, theone focusingon subjective experience, the otheron theattempt toestablish objective ...
... society. As MichaelHill wrote, interest inastrologyseemed tobe considerable 'even inthe most technologically advanced areasof Western society',35 whiletheastronomers Snowand Brownsberger wrotethat 'even today' somepeople havefaith ...
... Society forPsychical Research, 58/826 (1992),p.179. 18 NinianSmart, ThePhenomenon of Religion (London, 1973), p. 24. 19Grace Davie, ReligioninBritain since 1945 (Oxford,1994), p. 68; Bryan Wilson, Contemporary Transformations of ...