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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... Campion Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David 30 November 2011 Chapter 1 Introduction : A Million - Dollar Business ?
... study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth - has millions of fans , a number of vociferous opponents , and is a familiar part of popular culture , but has almost completely escaped ...
... study originally arose from my observation that much of the public discourse on astrology is dominated by the assumption that it is overwhelmingly a matter of belief; astrology is classified as a form of 'belief' and students and ...
... study popular culture, rather than subject religion to the rigours of cultural analysis.14 When we come to the sociology of religion, the English- language literature on the New Age movement includes only one paper in an academic ...
... study of astrology's contemporary cultural status may shed light on the condition of modern 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 ...
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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 | |