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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... question 11.3 Religious affiliation of Campion respondents ( percentages ) 11.4 Comparison of readership of horoscope columns : author's data compared with other studies ( percentages ) 11.5 Headline figures for questions on ...
... question, I will address four principal questions concerning astrology's place in modern culture. Firstly, is it a New Age discipline and, if so, what is its relationship with the Western millenarian and apocalyptic tradition? Secondly ...
... question of previous studies. Although astrology is, as has been noted, a subject of considerable journalistic interest, there has been little academic concern with its contemporary cultural nature and function. To put it bluntly, most ...
... people's belief in the paranormal, 'it is probably of equal interest to ask, for example, why more people believe that they have experienced precognition than OBE [out-of-the-body experience ] as it is to question why more people.
... question why more people have experienced precognition than OBE ' . " It is important , from a phenomenological perspective , to allow astrologers to speak for themselves and relate their own experiences . This is a goal which I have ...
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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 | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |