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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... Cosmic Liberation: The Pursuit of the Millennium 3 The Shock of the New: The Age of Aquarius 4 Celestial Enlightenment: The New Age 5 End Times: The New Age and the Age of Aquarius 6 The Writing of Heaven: New Age Astrology 7 Oracles to ...
... Cosmic Liberation: The Pursuit of the Millennium Nation. David J. Hess, Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, its Defenders and Debunkers and American Culture (Madison WI, 1993), p. 6. 41 Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement (Oxford, 1996) ...
... moral collapse climaxes in political and military strife, accompanied by the parousia (literally 'arrival' or 'presence'), that is, Christ's return . Christ , it was believed , is then Cosmic Liberation: The Pursuit of the Millennium.
... to their locations at the creation.17 The planets' Platonic function was not to cause or influence events in earth, but to indicate the changing qualities of the unfolding of the cosmic order and , by inference , the manifestation.
... cosmic ' on the one hand and ' chaotic ' on the other , following Mircea Eliade's two models of the origins of the universe.20 The belief that God will warn of the End by means of random events is representative of a ' chaotic ...
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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 | |