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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... thought in their belief that the 'now' is inherently qualitatively better than the past. My specific examination of contemporary belief in astrology is then intended to illuminate wider contemporary issues concerning the supposed ...
... thought in their belief that the 'now' is inherently qualitatively better than the past. My specific examination of contemporary belief in astrology is then intended to illuminate wider contemporary issues concerning the supposed ...
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... thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish objective measures of such experience, these contrasting approaches are not mutually antagonistic but ...
... thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish objective measures of such experience, these contrasting approaches are not mutually antagonistic but ...
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... thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia. 7 That they emerge with the earliest written records suggests an origin in pre-literate culture. In the first centuries BCE and CE, apocalyptic ideas permeated the ...
... thought can be traced back to late third millennium BCE Mesopotamia. 7 That they emerge with the earliest written records suggests an origin in pre-literate culture. In the first centuries BCE and CE, apocalyptic ideas permeated the ...
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... Thought in the Western World (Oxford, 1979). 11 Jon R. Stone, Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy (London, 2000); Henri Desroche, The Sociology of Hope (London, 1979), pp. 93–4; Catherine Wessinger ...
... Thought in the Western World (Oxford, 1979). 11 Jon R. Stone, Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy (London, 2000); Henri Desroche, The Sociology of Hope (London, 1979), pp. 93–4; Catherine Wessinger ...
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... thought was encouraged in the fifteenth century by the translation of the works of Plato, including his crucial cosmological texts, into Latin. So great was Plato's reputation that, as Eugenio Garin put it, in the Renaissance 'the theme ...
... thought was encouraged in the fifteenth century by the translation of the works of Plato, including his crucial cosmological texts, into Latin. So great was Plato's reputation that, as Eugenio Garin put it, in the Renaissance 'the theme ...
المحتوى
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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