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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... the USand France subscribe to it.Weshould putthis apparently rather large figureinto perspective; the adult populationof ... from astrological groupsin Serbiaand Norway, aswell as Braziland Argentina, and while there are variations in ...
... from the mass media.7 Mysubtitle is'Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement'. The prophecy under investigationis the coming of theoften synonymous periods of the Age of Aquariusand theNew Age. The cosmology under examinationis ...
... from either practitioners or users. TouseNinian Smart's adaptation ofHusserl's phrase,Iam concerned with the ... the study of astrology's contemporary cultural status may shed light on the condition of modern society as a whole. As Grace ...
... at least back to Isidore of Seville (c. 560–4 April 636), between 'natural' and 'judicial' astrology.28 Natural astrology required nomore than the observationof natural influences deriving fromthe planets, andwas universally ...
... from the modern West backto theancient Near East.2 The New Age is, in spiteof the epithet 'new', part of anancient matrix of ideas which dependon the notion thathuman society, the whole world, or eventhe entire universe, isabout to ...