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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... millenarianism and the New Age chiefly as ideological rather than, say, sociological phenomena. From ... millenarian and apocalyptic tradition? Secondly, if astrology is a New Age discipline, should it be seen as a rival ...
... millenarian in character, and forms part of a broader cultural tradition which extends from the modern West back to the ancient Near East.2 The New Age is, in spite of the epithet 'new', part of an ancient matrix of ideas which depend ...
... millenarian', 'millennial', 'eschatological' and 'apocalyptic' are commonly used interchangeably.9 Although the term 'millenarian' has strictly Christian connotations, it may be applied to all beliefs that the world is about to enter a ...
... millenarian ideology which are pertinent to the modern New Age. One is an emphasis on education, for which the inspiration is found in the works of the Athenian philosopher Plato. Writing in the early fourth century BCE, Plato argued ...
... millenarian Christianity up to the nineteenth century . The Mormons , for example , had their own astrological perspective on the end of the world.22 Theories which assume a purpose in history tend to be bound up with concepts of order ...
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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 | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |