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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... origins of modern New Age and astrological culture. My fieldwork is tentative and preliminary and far from conclusive. It is, rather, suggestive, of possibilities for further work. As my inquiry is partly literary, and as this is the ...
... origins of modern New Age and astrological culture. My fieldwork is tentative and preliminary and far from conclusive. It is, rather, suggestive, of possibilities for further work. As my inquiry is partly literary, and as this is the ...
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... origins, in this case of the New Age movement and of contemporary astrology as a language of zodiac signs, personality and psychological potential. While the foundation of my study is historical, this leads directly into an analysis of ...
... origins, in this case of the New Age movement and of contemporary astrology as a language of zodiac signs, personality and psychological potential. While the foundation of my study is historical, this leads directly into an analysis of ...
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... Origins and Evolution (London and New York, 1997), p. 7. 37 Peter Glick and Mark Snyder, 'Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Psychology of Belief in Astrology', Humanist, 46/3 (1986), p. 20. Astrology is in fact a bizarre survival from pre ...
... Origins and Evolution (London and New York, 1997), p. 7. 37 Peter Glick and Mark Snyder, 'Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Psychology of Belief in Astrology', Humanist, 46/3 (1986), p. 20. Astrology is in fact a bizarre survival from pre ...
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... origin in pre-literate culture. In the first centuries BCE and CE, apocalyptic ideas permeated the Hellenistic world and formed a part of Gnostic, Jewish and Christian historical theory, and all partook of a common tradition which was ...
... origin in pre-literate culture. In the first centuries BCE and CE, apocalyptic ideas permeated the Hellenistic world and formed a part of Gnostic, Jewish and Christian historical theory, and all partook of a common tradition which was ...
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... origins of the universe.20 The belief that God will warn of the End by means of random events is representative of a 'chaotic' cosmology, and of a different nature from the 'cosmic' notion that great historical changes coincide with the ...
... origins of the universe.20 The belief that God will warn of the End by means of random events is representative of a 'chaotic' cosmology, and of a different nature from the 'cosmic' notion that great historical changes coincide with the ...
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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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