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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... XI D 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 ASTROLOGY AND POPULAR RELIGION IN THE MODERN WEST To Wendy. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Nicholas Campion www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Campion , Nicholas. Front ...
... England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington VT 05401-4405 USA I. Title 133.5'09 - dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging -. www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Campion , Nicholas .
... astrologers should be prosecuted for fraud , while the British television regulatory code prohibits the broadcast of ' horoscopes ' except as ' entertainment ' or as the subject of ' legitimate inquiry ' , and forbids transmission of it ...
... astrology's place in contemporary British culture. This book is a preliminary attempt to rectify this situation, particularly in the UK and the US. My study originally arose from my observation that much of the public discourse on astrology ...
... Astrology / Personality Correlations ' , Correlation , 4/2 ( 1984 ) , pp . 14–30 ; John Bauer and Martin Durant , ' British Public Perceptions of Astrology : An Approach from the Sociology of Knowledge ' , Culture and Cosmos , 1/1 ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
percentages | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |