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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... context have tended to fall prey to the legacy of the self-defined Enlightenment struggle against superstition, and it has too often been condemned or dismissed, rather than subjected to systematic investigation. This book is an attempt ...
... context have tended to fall prey to the legacy of the self-defined Enlightenment struggle against superstition, and it has too often been condemned or dismissed, rather than subjected to systematic investigation. This book is an attempt ...
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... context which is wide enough to allow a better understanding of the recent history and present status of esoteric ideas , occult practices and alternative spiritualities , that potent cultural matrix which alarms evangelical Christians ...
... context which is wide enough to allow a better understanding of the recent history and present status of esoteric ideas , occult practices and alternative spiritualities , that potent cultural matrix which alarms evangelical Christians ...
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... context of the history of ideas , I will deal with both millenarianism and the New Age chiefly as ideological rather than , say , sociological phenomena . From millenarianism I will consider , briefly , questions of modernism and ...
... context of the history of ideas , I will deal with both millenarianism and the New Age chiefly as ideological rather than , say , sociological phenomena . From millenarianism I will consider , briefly , questions of modernism and ...
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... context in the history of ideas . My concerns are partly historical . In particular , I am interested in the problem of origins , in this case of the New Age movement and of contemporary astrology as a language of zodiac signs ...
... context in the history of ideas . My concerns are partly historical . In particular , I am interested in the problem of origins , in this case of the New Age movement and of contemporary astrology as a language of zodiac signs ...
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... Context : An Essay ' , in John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair ( eds ) , Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy : Conversations Across Time and Space ( Durham NC , 2005 ) , p . 15 . Augustine , City of God , trans . Henry Bettenson ...
... Context : An Essay ' , in John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair ( eds ) , Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy : Conversations Across Time and Space ( Durham NC , 2005 ) , p . 15 . Augustine , City of God , trans . Henry Bettenson ...
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