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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In other versions, which have been carried into the modern world via Neoplatonism, the astrologer is psychically embedded in the cosmos and plays a vital role in the application of astrology to human affairs.29 ...
In other versions, which have been carried into the modern world via Neoplatonism, the astrologer is psychically embedded in the cosmos and plays a vital role in the application of astrology to human affairs.29 ...
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My argument is that the quest for meaning is a universal human attribute and that in most, if not all, cultures, there is a predisposition to find meaning in the sky. To cite the French philosopher Bruno Latour, 'No one has ever heard ...
My argument is that the quest for meaning is a universal human attribute and that in most, if not all, cultures, there is a predisposition to find meaning in the sky. To cite the French philosopher Bruno Latour, 'No one has ever heard ...
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It was the nineteenth-century anthropologist E.B. Tylor who argued that human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, ...
It was the nineteenth-century anthropologist E.B. Tylor who argued that human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, ...
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... in spite of the epithet 'new', part of an ancient matrix of ideas which depend on the notion that human society, the whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, ...
... in spite of the epithet 'new', part of an ancient matrix of ideas which depend on the notion that human society, the whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, ...
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Isaiah, for example, had forecast that, at the Day of Yahweh, when the final reckoning between humanity and God was due, '... the stars of the Heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the Sun will be dark at its ...
Isaiah, for example, had forecast that, at the Day of Yahweh, when the final reckoning between humanity and God was due, '... the stars of the Heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the Sun will be dark at its ...
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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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| العنوان | Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement |
| المؤلف | Nicholas Campion |
| الإصدار | معاد طباعته |
| الناشر | Routledge, 2016 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1317177789, 9781317177784 |
| عدد الصفحات | 264 من الصفحات |
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