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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... Astrology itself is marked by a relative diversity in its claims . It may be considered , depending on the definition of all these words , to be magic , divination , a psychological tool , a religion , an art or a science ; it may be a ...
... psychological research into counter - cultural religious beliefs.2 This has changed , although not much , mainly due to a few studies of modern pagans . There are just a handful of studies specifically devoted to astrology . Of these ...
... astrology is indeed 'useful in an everyday way', as people deal with the mundane reality of their lives.25 Judy ... psychological, it does aim to lay the ground for social research by cutting through the polemics which normally ...
... Psychology : Replication and Interpretation of Eysenck's Astrology / Personality Correlations ' , Correlation , 4/2 ( 1984 ) , pp . 14–30 ; John Bauer and Martin Durant , ' British Public Perceptions of Astrology : An Approach from the ...
... Astrology Today : A Socio - Psychological Survey , Astrological Research Associates Research Bulletin no . 2 ( New York , 1960 ) ; Parker , The Question of Astrology ; Garry Phillipson , Astrology in the Year Zero ( London , 2000 ) . 22 ...
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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 | |