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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... Modern Astrology: A Critique', at <http://www. astrologyandscience.com/aconc2.htm> (2005), accessed 3 September 2011, p. 1. 25 GeoffreyDean, 'Does Astrology need tobeTrue?', in KendrickFrazier (ed.), The Hundredth Monkeyand Other ...
... astrology, Modern Astrology. 19 The conscious sense ofparticipating in a movement intended to encourage the smooth transition to the NewAge extended to theworldof theosophical astrology. By 1940 the following slogan had beenadded ...
Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. modern astrology is embedded. When Alice Bailey founded her theosophical offshoot, the Arcane School, in 1923, she was quiteexplicit that she was creating a group of ...
... Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. many commentators assume, it provides an explanatory model for the nature and popularity of modern astrology. 1William Bloom,The NewAge: An Anthology of Essential Writings (London, 1991),
... Modern Astrology's ComingofAge',Modern Astrology, New Series, 8/8(1911), p. 311. 20 Alice A.Bailey, 'Seed Groups in the New Age', in AliceA. Bailey,The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (New York, 1957), p. 28. 21Alice A. Bailey, The ...