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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... 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 ? In ...
... 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 ? In ...
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... whole Art of Astrology – viz . , Questions , Nativities , with all its parts , and the whole Doctrine of Elections never so comprised nor compiled before , & c . ( London , 1679 ) , para . 2 , 3 . We can also classify astrological ...
... whole Art of Astrology – viz . , Questions , Nativities , with all its parts , and the whole Doctrine of Elections never so comprised nor compiled before , & c . ( London , 1679 ) , para . 2 , 3 . We can also classify astrological ...
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... whole to be post - modern , although he offers no explanation for this . 40 Paul Heelas , meanwhile , considers the New Age movement in its counter- cultural aspects , and hence astrology , which he includes as New Age , as an aspect of ...
... whole to be post - modern , although he offers no explanation for this . 40 Paul Heelas , meanwhile , considers the New Age movement in its counter- cultural aspects , and hence astrology , which he includes as New Age , as an aspect of ...
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... whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, Elliot Miller, A Crash Course on the New Age Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p. 27; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion ...
... whole world, or even the entire universe, is about to experience a cataclysmic transformation. 2 See, for example, Elliot Miller, A Crash Course on the New Age Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p. 27; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion ...
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... whole . In London the Swedenborgians formed themselves into ' The Theosophical Society Instituted for the Purpose of Promoting the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem ' and , after 1787 , the ' New Church ' . They thrived briefly in ...
... whole . In London the Swedenborgians formed themselves into ' The Theosophical Society Instituted for the Purpose of Promoting the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem ' and , after 1787 , the ' New Church ' . They thrived briefly in ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
Belief in Astrology | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
With Their Own Voices | |
Modernity and Normality | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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