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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... concerned with whether astrology is a religion, and particularly whether it is 'New Age'. While my data is mainly from the English-speaking world, there is a recognisable community of astrologers in the modern West who share similar ...
... concerned with whether astrology is a religion, and particularly whether it is 'New Age'. While my data is mainly from the English-speaking world, there is a recognisable community of astrologers in the modern West who share similar ...
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... concerned with the nature of supposed belief in astrology within a wider context of the history of ideas, I will deal with both millenarianism and the New Age chiefly as ideological rather than, say, sociological phenomena. From ...
... concerned with the nature of supposed belief in astrology within a wider context of the history of ideas, I will deal with both millenarianism and the New Age chiefly as ideological rather than, say, sociological phenomena. From ...
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... concern with its contemporary cultural nature and function. To put it bluntly, most academics have shunned it. The literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it avoids anything which it believes belongs ...
... concern with its contemporary cultural nature and function. To put it bluntly, most academics have shunned it. The literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it avoids anything which it believes belongs ...
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... concerned with the astrologer's 'I-picture', the definitions astrologers use for themselves, as opposed to those which may be allocated to them by academics or external critics.18 17 T.J. Gaynard, 'Young People and the Paranormal ...
... concerned with the astrologer's 'I-picture', the definitions astrologers use for themselves, as opposed to those which may be allocated to them by academics or external critics.18 17 T.J. Gaynard, 'Young People and the Paranormal ...
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... concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached anything useful from a sociological point of view. Svenson and White, for example, looked at the content of horoscope columns and Michael Dambrun explored prejudice ...
... concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached anything useful from a sociological point of view. Svenson and White, for example, looked at the content of horoscope columns and Michael Dambrun explored prejudice ...
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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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