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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... religious movements, New Age culture, alternative spiritualities and questions ofthe nature of secularism andmodernity. 1 Robert Matthews, 'Astrologers failto predict proof theyare wrong', SundayTelegraph,17August2003,p.9.
... predict proof theyare wrong', SundayTelegraph,17August2003,p.9. 2 John Silber, 'Silliness under Seattle stars', Boston Herald, 16 May 2001, at <http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/silber05162001.htm>, accessed 1 June2001. 3 ...
... predicted, adapting the simple formsof prophecy from celestial signs familiar from the Old Testament.Isaiah, for example, had forecast that,at theDay of Yahweh, when the final reckoning between humanity andGodwas due, '... the starsof ...
... predicting the coming of the millennium. Onthe one hand, there were signs and wonders in the sky– the disorderly, if divinely ordained, events ofthe Old Testament, such as comets,which revealed God's changing mood.On the other, the ...
... predicted that the Jupiter– Saturn conjunction inScorpio would bring the demise of Christianity, and the conjunctionof 1523in Pisces which, coming during the first revolutionarywave of the Reformation, was widely usedto predict ...