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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... apocalyptic thought in their belief that the 'now' is inherently qualitatively better than the past. My specific examination of contemporary belief in astrology is then intended to illuminate wider contemporary issues concerning the ...
... apocalyptic ' , describing the tumultuous vision of the end of the world which was revealed to St John the Divine . Traditions of apocalyptic thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia . ' That they emerge with ...
... apocalyptic' are commonly used interchangeably.9 Although the term 'millenarian' has strictly Christian connotations, it may be applied to all beliefs that the world is about to enter a major new phase. In its looser definition ...
... Apocalyptic astrology was provided with a further level of detail and precision in the first centuries CE when the Persian astrologers incorporated the periodic occurrence of conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn , the slowest - moving of ...
... apocalyptic thought has been acknowledged by New Age writers. David Spangler, understood this well enough when discussing the basis for belief in the coming New Age: 'as the term Age of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was ...
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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 | |