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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... scientific times.2 Astrology - the study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth - has millions of fans , a number of vociferous opponents , and is a familiar part of popular culture ...
... scientific sceptics, the roots of which can be traced back around two thousand years to the dual foundations of Christianity and classical scepticism. The sceptics, in the early twenty - first century , currently have.
... scientific ignorance or religious error, compared to just a few examples of general surveys by sympathetic writers.16 There is therefore still no wide-ranging work which examines astrology's cultural locus and which may also be classed ...
... removing the word ' valid ' still enables astrology to function as a form of self - understanding , even if one that is scientifically invalid . Geoffrey Dean argued 24 that astrology is useful, if lacking any scientific basis, while.
... scientific basis, while Bridget Costello argued that astrology is indeed 'useful in an everyday way', as people deal with the mundane reality of their lives.25 Judy Pugh, writing on modern Indian astrology, refers to it as a system of ...
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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 | |