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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... literature, clients or readers. Both practitioners and users have often been condemned as socially marginal or psychologically deviant and it is therefore usually not considered necessary to examine what they actually say or do ...
... literature, clients or readers. Both practitioners and users have often been condemned as socially marginal or psychologically deviant and it is therefore usually not considered necessary to examine what they actually say or do ...
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... literature to date on 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 ...
... literature to date on 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 ...
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... literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it avoids anything which it believes belongs under an existing discipline, such as religious studies; I am grateful to my colleague Sean Cubitt, Professor of Global ...
... literature on cultural studies has steered clear of it, largely because it avoids anything which it believes belongs under an existing discipline, such as religious studies; I am grateful to my colleague Sean Cubitt, Professor of Global ...
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... literature with an open mind, reporting on claims and assertions without personal judgement, and through semi-structured interviews. On the grounds that practising astrologers may have specialised knowledge and experience in the field ...
... literature with an open mind, reporting on claims and assertions without personal judgement, and through semi-structured interviews. On the grounds that practising astrologers may have specialised knowledge and experience in the field ...
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... literature Marcello Truzzi attempted to initiate a discussion of astrology in popular culture in 1975, but his challenge was ignored.22 Aside from those writers who were concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached ...
... literature Marcello Truzzi attempted to initiate a discussion of astrology in popular culture in 1975, but his challenge was ignored.22 Aside from those writers who were concerned with testing astrology's claims, only a few approached ...
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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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