Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementThis 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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The sceptics, in the early twenty-first 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 ...
The sceptics, in the early twenty-first 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 ...
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We can also classify astrological practice according to the knowledge of the astrologer, from detailed and sophisticated to simple and crude, as did al-Qabïï in the mid-tenth century.30 I have also adopted Patrick Curry's hierarchical ...
We can also classify astrological practice according to the knowledge of the astrologer, from detailed and sophisticated to simple and crude, as did al-Qabïï in the mid-tenth century.30 I have also adopted Patrick Curry's hierarchical ...
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fifteenth century) and, in the modern world, newspaper and magazine 'sun-sign columns'. 30 Charles Burnett, 'The Certitude of Astrology: The Scientific Methodology of alQabïsï and abū Ma'shar', Early Science and Medicine, 7/3 (2002), ...
fifteenth century) and, in the modern world, newspaper and magazine 'sun-sign columns'. 30 Charles Burnett, 'The Certitude of Astrology: The Scientific Methodology of alQabïsï and abū Ma'shar', Early Science and Medicine, 7/3 (2002), ...
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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 polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, ...
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 polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, ...
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First used in the fifth 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 ...
First used in the fifth 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 ...
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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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| العنوان | Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement |
| المؤلف | Nicholas Campion |
| الإصدار | معاد طباعته |
| الناشر | Routledge, 2016 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1317177789, 9781317177784 |
| عدد الصفحات | 264 من الصفحات |
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