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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... perplexes many sociologists. As my title suggests, I am concerned with whether astrology is a religion, and particularly whether it is 'New Age'. While my data is mainly from the English-speaking world, there is a recognisable.
... suggests that public interest in astrology is similar in, say, Germany and France, to the UK and the US, while the network of organised astrologers manages to cross national boundaries, in spite of the language barriers. I also ...
... suggests an origin in pre - literate culture . In the first centuries BCE and CE , apocalyptic ideas permeated the Hellenistic world and formed a part of Gnostic , Jewish and Christian historical theory , and all partook of a common ...
... suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25 In the modern world, millenarianism has adopted a number of apparently secular forms, including, at its most violent and materialistic, Marxism and Nazism.26 The most pervasive form of ...
... suggesting that it was only familiar in theosophical circles and was discovered by academics only in the late 1970s or early 1980s.13 The concept of the New Age as a recent – post-counter-cultural – and hence transient phenomenon has ...
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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 | |