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', describing the tumultuous vision of the end of the world which was revealed to St John the Divine. Traditions ofapocalyptic thought can be tracedback to latethird millennium BCE Mesopotamia.7 That they emerge with ...
... Apocalyptic astrology was provided witha further level of detailand precisionin the firstcenturies CEwhen the Persian astrologers incorporated the periodic occurrenceof conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, the slowestmoving of the ...
... apocalyptic thought hasbeen acknowledged by New Age writers. David Spangler, understoodthis well enough when discussing thebasis for belief inthecoming New Age: 'asthe termAge of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25.
... apocalyptic, orpeaceful and progressive, are, inCollingwood's terminology, quasi historical. Another pervasive feature of millenarian thought, observed byKarl Popper,isthe paradoxical beliefthat active participation inthe historical ...
... Apocalyptic: The Historical and Sociological Roots ofJewish Apocalyptic Eschatology (Philadelphia, 1983); D.S. Russell, The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic: 200 BC–AD 100 (Philadelphia, 1964). 9See, for example, Hanegraaff, New ...