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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... 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 collected data from astrological groups in Serbia and Norway, as well as Brazil and ...
... to the decline of the mainstream churches in Britain, is regarded as worthy of comment by the cosmologist Stephen Hawking and, even though its function may have changed between medieval and modern times, is arguably connected with the ...
... to the latest space probe'.10 One may ask why , if it is drivel , it arouses such anger , and why one part of British media regulation regards it as so dangerous . In spite of such opposition , all women's magazines in the UK carry ...
... to the most popular stargazers ... [who] can earn £600,000 or more a year. A single profitable web site can be worth as much as £50 million.11 Where Matthews found this supposedly £50 million website, and what it was, he did not say. My ...
... to the rigours of cultural analysis.14 When we come to the sociology of religion, the English- language literature on the New Age movement includes only one paper in an academic anthology devoted to astrology, while there are a handful ...
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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 | |