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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... considered necessary to examine what they actually say or do. Astrology itself is marked by a relative diversity in its claims. It may be considered, depending on the definition of all these words, to be magic, divination, a ...
... considered necessary to examine what they actually say or do. Astrology itself is marked by a relative diversity in its claims. It may be considered, depending on the definition of all these words, to be magic, divination, a ...
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... considered to be a feature of the Western esoteric tradition, a New Age belief or practice, paranormal or an 'alternative religion', is seen as a potential contributor to the decline of the mainstream churches in Britain, is regarded as ...
... considered to be a feature of the Western esoteric tradition, a New Age belief or practice, paranormal or an 'alternative religion', is seen as a potential contributor to the decline of the mainstream churches in Britain, is regarded as ...
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... considers the New Age movement as a whole to be post-modern, although he offers no explanation for this.40 Paul Heelas, meanwhile, considers the New Age movement ... considered a natural part of the modern world. We therefore arrive at the.
... considers the New Age movement as a whole to be post-modern, although he offers no explanation for this.40 Paul Heelas, meanwhile, considers the New Age movement ... considered a natural part of the modern world. We therefore arrive at the.
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... considered benign, and unpredictable events in the sky therefore warned of interruptions in the normal political and social order. By contrast, the alternative system, which appeared in Greece by the fourth century BCE, envisioned ...
... considered benign, and unpredictable events in the sky therefore warned of interruptions in the normal political and social order. By contrast, the alternative system, which appeared in Greece by the fourth century BCE, envisioned ...
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... , there is an optimistic assumption that the condition of the world must necessarily and gradually improve.29 In the 1940s R.G. Collingwood, considering what he saw as the recent revival of this model, identified three forms of.
... , there is an optimistic assumption that the condition of the world must necessarily and gradually improve.29 In the 1940s R.G. Collingwood, considering what he saw as the recent revival of this model, identified three forms of.
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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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