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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... New Age Astrology?', in JamesR. LewisandJ.Gordon Melton, Perspectives on the New Age (Albany NY, 1992),pp. 179–88. For sociological studies see, for example, Robert Wuthnow, Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticisms and ...
... New Age ismillenarian incharacter, and forms part ofa broader cultural tradition which extends from the modern West backto theancient Near East.2 The New Age is, in spiteof the epithet 'new', part of anancient matrix of ideas which ...
... new age,newworlds, new heavens, newearths – which would runso eloquently through thecenturies of the Renaissance ... New Age writers. David Spangler, understoodthis well enough when discussing thebasis for belief inthecoming New Age ...
... New Age movement exhibits thesame paradox:while the dawningof NewAge isinevitable, it is still vital to encourageitby alteringone's lifestyle. Popper also noticed that thepractice of astrology isbasedaround the paradox that, although ...
... New Age Religion and Western Culture (Leiden and New York, 1996), pp. 96, 98–103; Stuart Sutcliffe, Children of the New Age: AHistory of SpiritualPractices (London,2003), pp. 9,11, 17. 3 Augustine, CityofGod,trans. Henry Bettenson ...