Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 01/09/2012 - 224 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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... Alice Bailey began writing about the Aquarian Age : an acceptance of the prediction that the shift into the Age of Aquarius would bring the inauguration of the New Age ; that this would bring a dramatic shift towards an enhanced ...
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... Alice Bailey) argued, is their emphasis on astrology as a primary means of raising consciousness and engineering the peaceful transition into the New Age.23 However, that the New Age and the Aquarian Age are not the same is evident ...
... Alice Bailey and her followers : not all theosophists think alike and Carter's Neoplatonic inclinations were better served by his membership of the discrete Universal Order , than of the Theosophical Society . Yet , while condemning ...
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SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
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The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
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Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |