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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... on the subject , whether by academics or journalists , consults neither astrologers , nor their literature , clients or readers . Both practitioners and users have often been condemned as socially marginal or psychologically deviant and ...
... on the origins of modern New Age and astrological culture. My fieldwork is tentative and preliminary and far from conclusive. It is, rather, suggestive, of possibilities for further work. As my inquiry is partly literary, and as this is ...
... on the New Age movement includes only one paper in an academic anthology devoted to astrology, while there are a handful of sociological studies which attempt to describe and quantify belief in astrology.15 Most critiques of astrology ...
... On the grounds that practising astrologers may have specialised knowledge and experience in the field , I therefore conducted the bulk of my fieldwork amongst those active in astrology , particularly attendees at astrology conferences ...
... research are often thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish objective measures of such experience, these contrasting approaches.
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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 | |
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Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |