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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... paranormal has attracted attention.6 Are women just gullible? Or do they find a mode of expression, a kind of knowing, which compensates for what Tuchman called their 'symbolic annihilation' – their virtual exclusion, except as ...
... paranormal or an 'alternative religion', is seen as a potential contributor to the decline of the mainstream churches in Britain, is regarded as worthy of comment by the cosmologist Stephen Hawking and, even though its function may have ...
... young people's belief in the paranormal, 'it is probably of equal interest to ask, for example, why more people believe that they have experienced precognition than OBE [out-of-the-body experience ] as it is to question why more people.
... , astrological , and the study of astrology's place in the modern world may have implications for our understanding of other aspects of culture which may not be as profound as they David J. Hess, Science in the New Age: The Paranormal,
... Paranormal', in E. Coly and R. White (eds), Women and Parapsychology (New York, 1994), pp. 68–89. 7 Gaye Tuchman, 'The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media', in Lane Crothers and Charles Lockhart, Culture and Politics: A ...
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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 | |