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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... planets, and was universally accepted in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Judicial astrology, requiring the astrologer's judgement, depended on complex deductions made from horoscopes and was widespread, but never entirely accepted ...
... planets revolved around it : the Moon , Mercury , Venus , the Sun , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn . Although this view of the universe has been proven false , astrology continues with hardly a wobble.38 Silber was following a Tylorian ...
... planetary cycles.16 Plato developed his model of periodic global destruction in the early fourth century BCE ... planets' Platonic function was not to cause or influence events in earth, but to indicate the changing qualities of ...
... planets , when they met in the same degree of the zodiac once every 20 years . The astrologers noticed that the ... planetary patterns understood in classical cosmology allowed corresponding events to be forecast hundreds of years ...
... planetary patterns occurred in 1484 , when it was predicted that the Jupiter - Saturn conjunction in Scorpio would bring the demise of Christianity , and the conjunction of 1523 in Pisces which , coming during the first revolutionary ...
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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 | |