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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... society, the whole world, or eventhe entire universe, isabout to experience a cataclysmic transformation. The word 'millenarianism' has both narrow and broad definitions. First used in the fifth century CE by St Augustine, itis derived ...
... Society andits Enemies, rev.edn (2 vols, London and New York, 1986), vol.1, pp. 210, 244. 32 Hilary Carey, Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1992), pp. 3–5. 33 Bronislaw ...
... society, the world, orthe entire universe. Like the parousia, the New Age is always imminent, but never comes. As we have seen, apocalyptic events were traditionally measured byplanetary cycles, chiefly Jupiter–Saturn conjunctions ...
... Society in New Yorkin 1875.The society is themostimportant single institutional influence on the New Age movement, partly because ofits global reach, from the US toFrance, the UK, Germany and India, but also because of thenumber of ...
... Society Instituted for thePurpose of Promoting theHeavenly Doctrinesofthe New Jerusalem'and, after 1787, the'New Church'.They thrived briefly inthe millenarian context of late eighteenthcentury Englandinwhichit TheShock ofthe New: The ...