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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... Religious affiliation of Campion respondents (percentages) 11.4 Comparison of readership of horoscope columns ... religious affiliation (1): author's data compared with Moore (1960) (M) 12.2 Astrologers' religious affiliation (2): ...
... Religious affiliation of Campion respondents (percentages) 11.4 Comparison of readership of horoscope columns ... religious affiliation (1): author's data compared with Moore (1960) (M) 12.2 Astrologers' religious affiliation (2): ...
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... religious devotees exceeds that of astrology believers, but the latter still represent a sizeable number.5 These rather startling figures should tell us something about modern religious culture yet are largely ignored by academics and ...
... religious devotees exceeds that of astrology believers, but the latter still represent a sizeable number.5 These rather startling figures should tell us something about modern religious culture yet are largely ignored by academics and ...
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... religious studies; I am grateful to my colleague Sean Cubitt, Professor of Global Media and Communication at Winchester School of Art, for making this simple point. Those attempts to relate religion to popular culture which have been ...
... religious studies; I am grateful to my colleague Sean Cubitt, Professor of Global Media and Communication at Winchester School of Art, for making this simple point. Those attempts to relate religion to popular culture which have been ...
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... religion? In this case, the wider significance of the study of its cultural function is clear, for as Bryan Wilson pointed out, 'Religious change is ... cultural change'.19 It is, though, not necessary to argue that astrology is a religion ...
... religion? In this case, the wider significance of the study of its cultural function is clear, for as Bryan Wilson pointed out, 'Religious change is ... cultural change'.19 It is, though, not necessary to argue that astrology is a religion ...
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... religions et du Culte, an attempt to establish the foundation of religion in astral worship. Delaunaye set out for the first time a complete theory of history in which astronomical, and hence religious, iconography evolved with the ...
... religions et du Culte, an attempt to establish the foundation of religion in astral worship. Delaunaye set out for the first time a complete theory of history in which astronomical, and hence religious, iconography evolved with the ...
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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