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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... human affairs.29 Simply, astrology requires the presence of the astrologer. Whichever version of astrology we are discussing, the form with which we are concerned in this book is judicial. 28 Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies, trans ...
... human affairs.29 Simply, astrology requires the presence of the astrologer. Whichever version of astrology we are discussing, the form with which we are concerned in this book is judicial. 28 Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies, trans ...
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... 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 of a collective that did not mobilize heaven and earth in ...
... 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 of a collective that did not mobilize heaven and earth in ...
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... human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, Tylor argued, belonged to the earliest, most primitive magical stage and its ...
... human culture was subject to an inevitable progression in which primitive magic was succeeded in turn by polytheism, monotheism and atheism.39 Astrology, Tylor argued, belonged to the earliest, most primitive magical stage and its ...
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... human society, the whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, Elliot Miller, A Crash Course on the New Age Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p. 27; Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
... human society, the whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, Elliot Miller, A Crash Course on the New Age Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p. 27; Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
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... 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 rising and the Moon will not shed its light.14 Such prophecies were repeated or paraphrased in the ...
... 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 rising and the Moon will not shed its light.14 Such prophecies were repeated or paraphrased in the ...
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The Age of Aquarius | |
The New | |
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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