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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... Future ? Is it Compatible with Christianity ? ( Minneapolis , 1981 ) . For non - academic but sympathetic studies see Derek Parker , The Question of Astrology : A Personal Investigation ( London , 1970 ) and Neil Spencer , True as the ...
... Future ? Is it Compatible with Christianity ? ( Minneapolis , 1981 ) . For non - academic but sympathetic studies see Derek Parker , The Question of Astrology : A Personal Investigation ( London , 1970 ) and Neil Spencer , True as the ...
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... future research and is designed mainly to test whether previous and often widely reported figures on ' belief in astrology are accurate . I am concerned with the nature of the narrative that astrologers themselves weave about their role ...
... future research and is designed mainly to test whether previous and often widely reported figures on ' belief in astrology are accurate . I am concerned with the nature of the narrative that astrologers themselves weave about their role ...
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... future crisis, to be followed by the restoration of paradise.10 Within this scheme there are variations. 'Pre-millennialism', for example, holds that the coming crisis (for example) may be violent and destructive, while 'post-' or ...
... future crisis, to be followed by the restoration of paradise.10 Within this scheme there are variations. 'Pre-millennialism', for example, holds that the coming crisis (for example) may be violent and destructive, while 'post-' or ...
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... future can be prophesied . The relationship between historical and astrological thought was encouraged in the fifteenth century by the translation of the works of Plato , including his crucial cosmological texts , into Latin . So great ...
... future can be prophesied . The relationship between historical and astrological thought was encouraged in the fifteenth century by the translation of the works of Plato , including his crucial cosmological texts , into Latin . So great ...
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... future is predetermined , knowledge of what is to come enables human beings to amend it . His view was clear and insightful : Astrology , it should be realised , shares with historicism the belief in a predeterminate destiny which can ...
... future is predetermined , knowledge of what is to come enables human beings to amend it . His view was clear and insightful : Astrology , it should be realised , shares with historicism the belief in a predeterminate destiny which can ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
Belief in Astrology | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
With Their Own Voices | |
Modernity and Normality | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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