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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... amongst those active in astrology, particularly attendees at astrology conferences. This may seem obvious, but it is surprising how often statements about astrology's nature are made without any evidence from either practitioners or ...
... amongst those active in astrology, particularly attendees at astrology conferences. This may seem obvious, but it is surprising how often statements about astrology's nature are made without any evidence from either practitioners or ...
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... amongst astrologers.23 There is, though, little consensus amongst current academic work. In his literature review of 2005, Ivan Kelly concluded that astrology 'offers no valid contribution to understanding ourselves, not our place in ...
... amongst astrologers.23 There is, though, little consensus amongst current academic work. In his literature review of 2005, Ivan Kelly concluded that astrology 'offers no valid contribution to understanding ourselves, not our place in ...
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... amongst historians and debunked by anthropologists. It was the nineteenth-century anthropologist E.B. Tylor who argued that human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by ...
... amongst historians and debunked by anthropologists. It was the nineteenth-century anthropologist E.B. Tylor who argued that human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by ...
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... amongst both atheists and occultists through the first half the nineteenth century. As a simple example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and 2,000 BCE, bull-gods were worshipped. There ...
... amongst both atheists and occultists through the first half the nineteenth century. As a simple example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and 2,000 BCE, bull-gods were worshipped. There ...
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... amongst astrologers. On 5 December 2009 astrologer Erin Sullivan presented a day-long seminar as a part of the Robert Bateman 'Green Learning Series', on 'Global Transformation: The Evolution of Consciousness through Mythology and ...
... amongst astrologers. On 5 December 2009 astrologer Erin Sullivan presented a day-long seminar as a part of the Robert Bateman 'Green Learning Series', on 'Global Transformation: The Evolution of Consciousness through Mythology and ...
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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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