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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... contemporary belief in astrology is then intended to illuminate wider contemporary issues concerning the supposed relationship between 'traditional' and 'non-traditional' beliefs, a discussion which can be framed within the context of ...
... contemporary popular culture of the modern West is apparent from the ubiquitous presence of the horoscope column in print and, in the last decade, on the web. What is at issue, though, is astrology's character. On this, opinions diverge ...
... 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 is dominated by ...
... contemporary cultural status may shed light on the condition of modern society as a whole . As Grace Davie has argued , ' by looking at the way that society reacts to new religious movements and the controversy they generate , we can ...
... contemporary society as a whole . Dale Caird and Henry Law , meanwhile , noted that even in the 1980s there was a substantial lack of empirical social psychological research into counter - cultural religious beliefs.2 This has changed ...
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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 | |