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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... context have tended to fall prey to the legacy of the self-defined Enlightenment struggle against superstition, and it has too often been condemned or dismissed, rather than subjected to systematic investigation. This book is an attempt ...
... context have tended to fall prey to the legacy of the self-defined Enlightenment struggle against superstition, and it has too often been condemned or dismissed, rather than subjected to systematic investigation. This book is an attempt ...
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... context which is wide enough to allow a better understanding of the recent history and present status of esoteric ideas, occult practices and alternative spiritualities, that potent cultural matrix which alarms evangelical Christians ...
... context which is wide enough to allow a better understanding of the recent history and present status of esoteric ideas, occult practices and alternative spiritualities, that potent cultural matrix which alarms evangelical Christians ...
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... 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 millenarianism I will consider, briefly, questions of modernism and modernity ...
... 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 millenarianism I will consider, briefly, questions of modernism and modernity ...
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... context in the history of ideas. 19 Grace Davie, Religion in Britain since 1945 (Oxford, 1994), p. 68; Bryan Wilson, Contemporary Transformations of Religion (Oxford, 1979), p. 3. 20 Dale Caird and Henry G. Law, 'Non-Conventional ...
... context in the history of ideas. 19 Grace Davie, Religion in Britain since 1945 (Oxford, 1994), p. 68; Bryan Wilson, Contemporary Transformations of Religion (Oxford, 1979), p. 3. 20 Dale Caird and Henry G. Law, 'Non-Conventional ...
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... context, but often less so to some scientific sceptics on the grounds that it does not make scientific claims. On the other hand, if it is natural philosophy, which is how it would have seemed to many medieval Aristotelians, it is ...
... context, but often less so to some scientific sceptics on the grounds that it does not make scientific claims. On the other hand, if it is natural philosophy, which is how it would have seemed to many medieval Aristotelians, it is ...
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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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