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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... society is immune to its attraction.1 1 Robert Matthews, 'Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong', Sunday Telegraph, 17 August 2003, p. 9. Astrology is ... a bizarre survival from pre-scientific times.2 2 John Silber ...
... society is immune to its attraction.1 1 Robert Matthews, 'Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong', Sunday Telegraph, 17 August 2003, p. 9. Astrology is ... a bizarre survival from pre-scientific times.2 2 John Silber ...
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... society is immune to its attraction. A recent survey found that a third of science students subscribed to some aspects of astrology, while some supposedly hard-headed businessmen now support a thriving market in 'financial astrology ...
... society is immune to its attraction. A recent survey found that a third of science students subscribed to some aspects of astrology, while some supposedly hard-headed businessmen now support a thriving market in 'financial astrology ...
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... society as a whole. As Grace Davie has argued, 'by looking at the way that society reacts to new religious movements and the controversy they generate, we can discover more about that society itself'. And what if astrology is a religion ...
... society as a whole. As Grace Davie has argued, 'by looking at the way that society reacts to new religious movements and the controversy they generate, we can discover more about that society itself'. And what if astrology is a religion ...
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... society and their place in the cosmos. Even though qualitative and quantitative research are often thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish ...
... society and their place in the cosmos. Even though qualitative and quantitative research are often thought to belong to different research categories, the one focusing on subjective experience, the other on the attempt to establish ...
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... society's view of and beliefs about the celestial sphere are inextricably linked to the realm of politics, economics ... society. As Michael Hill wrote, interest in astrology seemed to be considerable 'even in the most technologically ...
... society's view of and beliefs about the celestial sphere are inextricably linked to the realm of politics, economics ... society. As Michael Hill wrote, interest in astrology seemed to be considerable 'even in the most technologically ...
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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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