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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... Theosophical Society in New York in 1875. The society is the most important single institutional influence on the New Age movement , partly because of its global reach , from the US to France , the UK , Germany and India , but also ...
... theosophical regard for the East , was the focus of Levi Dowling's 1907 The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ . This apocryphal gospel was reputedly channelled from the Akashic records , and claimed that Jesus had studied with ...
... the documentary evidence indicates that the use of the shift of the constellations as a technical basis for such prophecies appears to be a product of late eighteenth-century atheism, filtered through theosophy and then adopted.
... theosophy and then adopted by astrologers. We are therefore dealing with a clear example of an 'invented tradition', but one which has deep roots in the Western mentality. 1 Rudolf Steiner , The Reappearance of Christ in the.
... Theosophical Movement ( Berkeley , 1980 ) . 10 11 12 13 14 H.P. Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine ( 2 vols , Los Angeles , 1982 ) , vol . 1 , p . 641 . Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine , vol . 1 , p . 641 . Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine ...
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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 | |