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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... notion of astrology as a 'million-dollar' business into the unlikely figure of a 'billion-dollar' enterprise.12 Although all such quoted figures are given without reliable sources, they tend to be repeated as journalists base subsequent ...
... notion that human society, the whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. The word 'millenarianism' has both narrow and broad definitions. First used in the fifth century CE by St ...
... notions fed into early Christianity via the great Helleniser, St Paul. Another commonly expressed view in the classical world and closely associated with the Stoics and with astrology, of which the Stoics were generally keen supporters ...
... notion that great historical changes coincide with the predictable sequence order of astronomical motions . Significant examples of predictable planetary patterns occurred in 1484 , when it was predicted that the Jupiter - Saturn ...
... notion of 'many changes' was to become popularly associated with the coming of the Age of Aquarius. The twin concepts of the Sun as the origin of all male- anthropomorphised religions (so that all gods and divine saviours are solar ...
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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 | |