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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... sociologists. Asmy titlesuggests, Iam concernedwith whether astrology isa religion,and particularlywhether it is 'New Age'.While my datais mainly fromthe Englishspeaking world, thereisa recognisable community of astrologersinthe modern ...
... sociological phenomena. From millenarianism Iwill consider, briefly, questions of modernismandmodernity, bothof whichare heir toapocalyptic thought in their beliefthat the 'now' is inherently qualitatively betterthan the past.My ...
... sociological research amongst astrologers in1960; the others areDerek Parker's survey publishedin1972 andGarry Phillipson's collections of interviews, published in 2000.21 While there has now been substantial workin some areas ...
... sociological pointof view. Svenson andWhite, for example,looked atthe contentof horoscope columnsand Michael Dambrun exploredprejudice amongst astrologers.23 There is, though,little consensus amongst current academic work.Inhis ...
... sociological studies see, for example, Robert Wuthnow, Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticisms and Their Implicationsforthe Churches (Berkeley CA, 1978); Kurt Pawlik andLotharBuse, 'SelfAttribution asaModerator ...