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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... human affairs.29 Simply, astrology requires the presence of theastrologer. Whichever version of astrology we are discussing, the form with which we are concernedin this book isjudicial. We canalso classify astrological practice ...
... human culture was subject to an inevitable progression inwhich primitive magic was succeeded in turn by polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, Tylor argued, belonged to the earliest, most primitive magical stage and its ...
... humanity andGodwas due, '... the starsof the Heavens and their constellations will notgive their light;the Sun willbe darkatits rising andtheMoon willnotshedits light.14Such prophecies were repeated or paraphrased in the New Testament ...
... human advantage. The fundamental politicalastrological belief that thefutures of heavenlycosmos andterrestrialstate are equally determinedcan be contrasted with astrology's attempt, viathe detailed examination of horoscopes,to ...
... humanity for new soul faculties.1 Since theearly part of the twentieth century the millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of ... human civilisation conform to major movements of the constellations orzodiac signsin relation tothe equinox ...