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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... historical themes. Iwould like toacknowledge Brian Bocking, Marion Bowman and Michael York, who helped steer mein my present direction, as well as all my students and colleaguesin the Sophia Centre. Nicholas Campion Sophia Centre for ...
... historical changes coincide with astronomical movements, and the implications of this forindividual lives. Being concerned with the natureof supposed belief inastrology within a wider contextof the history of ideas, I willdeal with both ...
... historical.In particular, Iam interestedinthe problem oforigins,in thiscaseof the New Age movement andof contemporary astrology as a language of zodiacsigns, personalityand psychological potential. While the foundation ofmystudy is ...
... historical question, which I hopewillplay apart in the wider discussion of modern esotericism, new religious movements, New Age culture, alternative spiritualities and questions ofthe nature of secularism andmodernity. 1 Robert Matthews ...
... historical templatewhich still exertsaheavy influence inNew Ageideology, inwhich a pervasive moral collapse climaxes in politicaland military strife,accompanied bythe parousia (literally 'arrival' or'presence'), thatis,Christ's return ...