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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... perplexes many sociologists. As my title suggests, I am concerned with whether astrology is a religion, and particularly whether it is 'New Age'. While my data is mainly from the English-speaking world, there is a recognisable.
... sociological phenomena. From millenarianism I will consider, briefly, questions of modernism and modernity, both of which are heir to apocalyptic thought in their belief that the 'now' is inherently qualitatively better than the past ...
... sociology of religion, the English- language literature on the New Age movement includes only one paper in an academic anthology devoted to astrology, while there are a handful of sociological studies which attempt to describe and ...
... sociological research amongst astrologers in 1960 ; the others are Derek Parker's survey published in 1972 and Garry Phillipson's collections of interviews , published in 2000.21 While there has now been substantial work in some areas ...
... sociological evidence base and context in the history of ideas. My concerns are partly historical. In particular, I am interested in the problem of origins, in this case of the New Age movement and of contemporary astrology as a ...
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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 | |