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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... Heelas, The New Age Movement (Oxford, 1996),p.17. 4See Clarke Garrett, 'Swedenborg andthe Mystical Enlightenment inLate EighteenthCentury England', Journal ofthe HistoryofIdeas,45 (1984),p. 69.For Swedenborg's teachings see Emanuel ...
... Heelas et al., The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religionis Giving Way toSpirituality (Oxford, 2005). 17 MaxHeindel, The Rosicrucian CosmoConception (London, 1929),pp. 13, 19. 18 JohnOliphant, Brother Twelve: The Incredible Storyof Canada ...
... Heelas, New Age, pp. 18, 23; see also the previous writing by the Christian critic Elliot Miller, A Crash Course onthe NewAge Movement (Eastbourne, 1990), p.26. 42Heelas, New Age, p. 21. See also Christopher H. Partridge, 'Truth ...
... tendto assume that this isso. Paul Heelas, whose knowledge ofthe astrologicalmilieu isslight, allowedfor some uncertainty, writing that 'some have supposed that the development EndTimes: The New Age and the Age of Aquarius.
... Heelas, TheNewAge Movement (Oxford, 1996), p. 34;see also pp. 1, 43. 3 David Spangler, Explorations: Emerging Aspects ofthe New Culture (Forres, 1980), p. 78; see also David Spangler, A Pilgrimin Aquarius (Forres, 1996), p.247; William ...