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 pre - scientific times.2 Astrology - the study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth - has millions of ...
... of The Sunday Telegraph , wrote that Astrology has grown to be a huge worldwide business ... It seems that no sector of society is immune to its attraction . A recent survey found that a third of science students subscribed to.
... society as a whole . As Grace Davie has argued , ' by looking at the way that society reacts to new religious movements and the controversy they generate , we can discover more about that society itself ' . And what if astrology is a ...
... society as a whole . Dale Caird and Henry Law , meanwhile , noted that even in the 1980s there was a substantial lack of empirical social psychological research into counter - cultural religious beliefs.2 This has changed , although not ...
... society and their place in the cosmos. Even though qualitative and quantitative research are often thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish ...
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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 | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |