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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... interest in astrology is similar in, say, Germany and France, to the UK and the US, while the network of organised astrologers manages to cross national boundaries, in spite of the language barriers. I also collected data from ...
... interest in astrology is similar in, say, Germany and France, to the UK and the US, while the network of organised astrologers manages to cross national boundaries, in spite of the language barriers. I also collected data from ...
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... interest in the paranormal has attracted attention. Are women just gullible? Or do they find a mode of expression, a kind of knowing, which compensates for what Tuchman called their 'symbolic annihilation' – their virtual exclusion ...
... interest in the paranormal has attracted attention. Are women just gullible? Or do they find a mode of expression, a kind of knowing, which compensates for what Tuchman called their 'symbolic annihilation' – their virtual exclusion ...
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... interest, there has been little academic concern with its contemporary cultural nature and function. To put it bluntly, most academics have shunned it. The literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it ...
... interest, there has been little academic concern with its contemporary cultural nature and function. To put it bluntly, most academics have shunned it. The literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it ...
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... interest is with astrology's cultural status, rather than with the truth of its claims. As Gaynard observed in his study of young people's belief in the paranormal, 'it is probably of equal interest to ask, for example, why more people ...
... interest is with astrology's cultural status, rather than with the truth of its claims. As Gaynard observed in his study of young people's belief in the paranormal, 'it is probably of equal interest to ask, for example, why more people ...
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... interest in astrology seemed to be considerable 'even in the most technologically advanced areas of Western society', 35 while the astronomers Snow and Brownsberger wrote that 'even today' some people have faith in astrology.36 Note the ...
... interest in astrology seemed to be considerable 'even in the most technologically advanced areas of Western society', 35 while the astronomers Snow and Brownsberger wrote that 'even today' some people have faith in astrology.36 Note the ...
المحتوى
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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