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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... suggests that public interest in astrologyis similar in, say, Germany and France, tothe UK and theUS, while the network of organised astrologers managesto cross national boundaries, in spite of the language barriers. I also collected ...
... suggests an originin preliterate culture. Inthe first centuries BCE and CE, apocalyptic ideas permeated the Hellenistic world and formeda part of Gnostic, Jewish and Christian historical theory, and all partook ofa common tradition ...
... apocalyptic thought hasbeen acknowledged by New Age writers. David Spangler, understoodthis well enough when discussing thebasis for belief inthecoming New Age: 'asthe termAge of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25.
Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. termAge of Aquarius suggests,' he wrote, 'one source was astrology'.25 In the modern world, millenarianism hasadopted a number ofapparently secularforms, including,at ...
... suggesting that it was only familiarin theosophical circles and was discovered by academicsonly in the late1970s orearly 1980s.13 The conceptof the NewAge as arecent –postcountercultural – and hence transient phenomenon has encouraged ...