Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementRoutledge, 15/04/2016 - 264 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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... belief in astrology, and to place it in its wider cultural environment, in particular in relation to religious ... Study of Cosmology in Culture, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint ...
... belief in astrology, and to place it in its wider cultural environment, in particular in relation to religious ... Study of Cosmology in Culture, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint ...
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... study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth – has millions of ... religion, an art or a science; it may be a matter of studying the supposed relationships between celestial and ...
... study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth – has millions of ... religion, an art or a science; it may be a matter of studying the supposed relationships between celestial and ...
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... study originally arose from my observation that much of the public discourse on astrology is dominated by the assumption that it is overwhelmingly a matter of belief; astrology is classified as a form of 'belief' and students and ...
... study originally arose from my observation that much of the public discourse on astrology is dominated by the assumption that it is overwhelmingly a matter of belief; astrology is classified as a form of 'belief' and students and ...
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... religion to popular culture which have been published actually encourage theologians to study popular culture, rather than subject religion to the rigours of cultural analysis.14 14 See, for example, Gordon Lynch, Understanding Theology ...
... religion to popular culture which have been published actually encourage theologians to study popular culture, rather than subject religion to the rigours of cultural analysis.14 14 See, for example, Gordon Lynch, Understanding Theology ...
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... Religion (London, 1973), p. 24. Yet the study of astrology's 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 ...
... Religion (London, 1973), p. 24. Yet the study of astrology's 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 ...
المحتوى
The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
Belief in Astrology | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
With Their Own Voices | |
Modernity and Normality | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
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