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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... English language literatureonthe NewAge movement includesonly one paper in an academic anthology devotedto astrology, whilethere are ahandful of sociologicalstudies which attempt to describe and quantifybelief in astrology.15 Most ...
... Indian astrology, refers to it as asystem of 'situation construction'in which therapy ismanaged through the use of everyday languageto 'represent and reform troublesome situations in the client's life'.26 While this study cannot tackle ...
... in relation tothe heavens'.33 And, in the words of Clive Ruggles and Nicholas Saunders, The study of cultural astronomies is concerned with the diversity of ways in which cultures, both ancient and modern, perceive celestial objects and ...
... 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 survival in the modern worldis therefore aserious problem. If ...
... inwhich a pervasive moral collapse climaxes in politicaland military strife,accompanied bythe parousia (literally 'arrival' or'presence'), thatis,Christ's return. Christ, itwas believed,is then dueto triumph over Satan and reign in ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
Astrology | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |