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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... example , in August 2003 , Robert Matthews , science correspondence of The Sunday Telegraph , wrote that Astrology has grown to be a huge worldwide business ... It seems that no sector of society is immune to its attraction . A recent ...
... examples of general surveys by sympathetic writers.16 There is therefore still no wide-ranging work which ... example, why more people believe that they have experienced precognition than OBE [out-of-the-body experience ] as ...
... example , looked at the content of horoscope columns and Michael Dambrun explored prejudice amongst astrologers.23 There is , though , little consensus amongst current academic work . In his literature review of 2005 , Ivan Kelly ...
... example, if astrology is classified as a form of divination it tends to be more controversial in a Christian context, but often less so to some scientific sceptics on the grounds that it does not make scientific claims. On the other ...
... example , Beth Hale , ' Is astrology bunk ? ' , Daily Mail , 18 August 2003 . 14 See , for example , Gordon Lynch , Understanding Theology and Popular Culture ( Oxford , 2005 ) . 15 Shoshanah Feher , ' Who Holds the Cards ? Women and ...
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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 | |