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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... one's political leanings, either afree or regulated market.28 In Condorcet's version, there isan optimistic assumption that the conditionof theworld must necessarily and gradually improve.29In the 1940s R.G. Collingwood, considering ...
... one's individual psychic powers and the capability forphysical and/or psychological healing – is the NewAge springboard forthe quantum leap of collective consciousness which is tobring about and constitute the New Age itself.49 Some ...
... one's runaway slaveor lost treasure, which mattered profoundly to thewealthy clients of Greek astrologers such as Vettius Valens, have no connection even with maintaining one's personal harmony withthe cosmos,let alone historical ...
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