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 Astrology is ... a bizarre survival from pre-scientific times.2 Astrology – the study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth – has millions of ...
... society is immune to its attraction.1 Astrology is ... a bizarre survival from pre-scientific times.2 Astrology – the study and practice of the presumed relationship between the celestial bodies and events on earth – has millions of ...
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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 hardheaded 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 hardheaded 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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عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
المحتوى
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The Pursuit of the Millennium | 13 |
The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
The New Age | 29 |
The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | 41 |
New Age Astrology | 51 |
SunSign Astrology | 69 |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | 85 |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | 127 |
A Public Survey | 145 |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | 167 |
Interviews with Astrologers | 187 |
Modernity and Normality | 203 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Index | 247 |
Astrology Religion and Belief | 115 |
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Age astrology Age culture Age discipline Age Movement Age of Aquarius Alan Leo Alice Bailey amongst astrologers answers apocalyptic Aquarian Age argument asked astrological ages Astrological Association Astrological Journal Astrology London astrology’s attitudes to astrology behaviour belief in astrology Blavatsky Blavatsky’s British Astrological cent century Christian affiliation church claimed concerned conference Consciousness contemporary context cosmic cosmology Dane Rudhyar David Spangler definition of astrology divine Esoteric Astrology evidence example figures future human individual interest in astrology Leo’s literature MAJMA Michael Michael York millenarian Modern Astrology nature Naylor Neoplatonic Nicholas Campion NORWAC notion Occult one’s opinion Oxford Paranormal Patrick Curry Paul Heelas planets positive postmodern prediction Prophecy psychological astrology question questionnaire readership of horoscope reincarnation religious affiliation response sample sceptical sense Society Sociology spiritual stars Study of Religion suggests sun-sign theory theosophical tradition University Western Astrology York zodiac signs