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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... we have the word 'apocalyptic', describing the tumultuous vision of the end of the world which was revealed to St John the Divine. Traditions of apocalyptic thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia.
... we have the word 'apocalyptic', describing the tumultuous vision of the end of the world which was revealed to St John the Divine. Traditions of apocalyptic thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia.
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By contrast, the alternative system, which appeared in Greece by the fourth century BCE, envisioned political or global collapse as integral to the divine order as expressed through predictable, mathematically ordered planetary ...
By contrast, the alternative system, which appeared in Greece by the fourth century BCE, envisioned political or global collapse as integral to the divine order as expressed through predictable, mathematically ordered planetary ...
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... theocratic history, in which the record of events reveals the manifestation of God, or the gods, in nature; and, secondly, myth, in which the characters are often divine and the key events take place outside the normal flow of time.
... theocratic history, in which the record of events reveals the manifestation of God, or the gods, in nature; and, secondly, myth, in which the characters are often divine and the key events take place outside the normal flow of time.
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The twin concepts of the Sun as the origin of all male-anthropomorphised religions (so that all gods and divine saviours are solar deities) and the shift of zodiac signs through precession of the equinoxes as a guide to the changing ...
The twin concepts of the Sun as the origin of all male-anthropomorphised religions (so that all gods and divine saviours are solar deities) and the shift of zodiac signs through precession of the equinoxes as a guide to the changing ...
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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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