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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... discussion of astrology's modern status in a 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 ...
... discussion of astrology's modern status in a 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 ...
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... discussion which can be framed within the context of debates on the place of religion and 'secularisation' in the modern world. As I am concerned with the numbers of people who believe in astrology as well as with the nature of that ...
... discussion which can be framed within the context of debates on the place of religion and 'secularisation' in the modern world. As I am concerned with the numbers of people who believe in astrology as well as with the nature of that ...
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... discussion of astrology in popular culture in 1975, but his challenge was ignored.22 Aside from those writers who were concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached anything useful from a sociological point of view ...
... discussion of astrology in popular culture in 1975, but his challenge was ignored.22 Aside from those writers who were concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached anything useful from a sociological point of view ...
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... discussion of astrology's status must revolve around what exactly it is. The descriptions we use tend to condition the kind of conclusions which are reached. For example, if astrology is classified as a form of divination it tends to be ...
... discussion of astrology's status must revolve around what exactly it is. The descriptions we use tend to condition the kind of conclusions which are reached. For example, if astrology is classified as a form of divination it tends to be ...
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... discussing, the form with which we are concerned in this book is judicial. 28 Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies, trans. Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach and Oliver Berghof (Cambridge, 2007), III.xxvii, p. 99; Nicholas Campion ...
... discussing, the form with which we are concerned in this book is judicial. 28 Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies, trans. Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach and Oliver Berghof (Cambridge, 2007), III.xxvii, p. 99; Nicholas Campion ...
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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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