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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... century, currently have the highest public profile. Richard Dawkins, formerly Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, believes that astrologers should be prosecuted for fraud, while the British television ...
... century, currently have the highest public profile. Richard Dawkins, formerly Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, believes that astrologers should be prosecuted for fraud, while the British television ...
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... century.30 I have also adopted Patrick Curry's hierarchical model of three forms of astrology forming a rough analogy with the three social groups , upper , middle and lower class . 31 The first , high astrology , is the astrology of ...
... century.30 I have also adopted Patrick Curry's hierarchical model of three forms of astrology forming a rough analogy with the three social groups , upper , middle and lower class . 31 The first , high astrology , is the astrology of ...
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... century ) and , in the modern world , newspaper and magazine ' sun - sign columns ' . 30 Charles Burnett , ' The ... century but may still illuminate our view of twenty- first - century society . As Michael Hill wrote , interest in ...
... century ) and , in the modern world , newspaper and magazine ' sun - sign columns ' . 30 Charles Burnett , ' The ... century but may still illuminate our view of twenty- first - century society . As Michael Hill wrote , interest in ...
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... 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 polytheism , monotheism and atheism . 39 Astrology , Tylor argued , belonged to ...
... 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 polytheism , monotheism and atheism . 39 Astrology , Tylor argued , belonged to ...
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... century CE by St Augustine, it is derived from the Latin mille, a thousand, and refers to the Persian and, subsequently, Christian belief that world history is divided into periods of one, two or three thousand years. The classic text ...
... century CE by St Augustine, it is derived from the Latin mille, a thousand, and refers to the Persian and, subsequently, Christian belief that world history is divided into periods of one, two or three thousand years. The classic text ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
Belief in Astrology | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
With Their Own Voices | |
Modernity and Normality | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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