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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 41
... Divine . Traditions of apocalyptic thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia . ' That they emerge with the earliest written records suggests an origin in pre - literate culture . In the first centuries BCE and ...
... divine order was about to break down. In scriptural cosmology normal astronomical order expressed through the cycles of Sun and Moon was considered benign, and unpredictable events in the sky therefore warned of interruptions in the ...
... divine intent in the material world.18 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 ...
... true history'.30 Quasi-history came in two forms; firstly, theocratic history, in which the record of events reveals the manifestation of God, or the gods, in nature; and, secondly, myth , in which the characters are often divine and.
... divine and the key events take place outside the normal flow of time . Forms of historiography which impose an a priori theoretical structure on history , whether violent and apocalyptic , or peaceful and progressive , are , in ...
المحتوى
| 6 | |
| 19 | |
SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
percentages | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |