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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... Leo , the most influential British astrologer of the early twentieth century . ' Barley had been the sub - editor of Leo's magazine and propaganda vehicle for theosophical astrology , Modern Astrology . 19 The conscious sense of ...
... Leo, 'The Editor's Observatory: Modern Astrology's Coming-of-Age', Modern Astrology, New Series, 8/8 (1911), p. 311. 20 Alice A. Bailey, 'Seed Groups in the New Age', in Alice A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (New York ...
... Leo, corresponding to Atlantean civilisation and solar monotheism. 8,000 BCE. Age of Cancer, corresponding to the Deluge, lunar and fertility goddess cults. 6,000 BCE. Age of Gemini, corresponding to cults of twins, such as Romulus and ...
... Leo / Aquarius Axis ' , Mountain Astrologer , 89 ( 2000 ) , pp . 12–21 ; Ray Grasse , ' Cinema and the Birth of the Aquarian Age ' , Mountain Astrologer , 108 ( 2003 ) , pp . 9-18 ; Gary Caton , ' Uranus in Pisces : Birthing the New Age ...
... Leo. In Leo's own account he discovered astrology as a teenager in 1877 although other versions make him 21.20 In either case, his discovery of the ancient discipline was precocious, and over the next forty years he worked ceaselessly ...
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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 | |
percentages | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |