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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... sense , is classed alongside the more traditionally taboo topics , sex and violence . The astronomer and TV presenter Brian Cox regards it as ' new age drivel ' which , he claims dramatically , ' is undermining the very fabric of our ...
... sense of its cosmology — the group's conception of themselves in relation to the were until the seventeenth century but may still illuminate our. heavens'.33 And , in the words of Clive Ruggles and Nicholas Saunders , The study of ...
... Sense of Astrology ( Amherst MA , 1998 ) . For Christian critiques see Peter Anderson , Satan's Snare : The Influence of the Occult ( Welwyn , 1988 ) , and Robert A. Morey , Horoscopes and the Christian : Does Astrology Accurately ...
... sense , the New Age constitutes an eternal present which is removed from the world of time and material change , much as in Plato's cosmogony ' Being ' was a pure, unchanging condition which underlay the constantly shifting uncertainty of.
... sense of participating in a movement intended to encourage the smooth transition to the New Age extended to the world of theosophical astrology . By 1940 the following slogan had been added to the back cover of the magazine Astrology ...
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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 | |