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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... seers', and disseminated his ideas through the Theosophical Society.10 Bythe 1870s the term 'NewAge' had become an establishedmetaphor for the Swedenborgian spiritualera, and bythe 1900s it was being usedby Theosophists such.
... Society's political project, meanwhile, extended to its spinoff groups. In 1928 the Aquarian Foundation, set up by the charismatic leader (and fraudster) Edward Wilson, also known as Brother XII, in British Columbia, had eight thousand ...
... society.45 The astrologer Rupert Gleadow, who was profoundly sceptical of theAge of Aquarius, wrotethat'its only virtue isthatit encourages us tolookon thefuture, despiterebuffs, as something forwhich we must continue to doourbest'.46 9 ...
... society astrologer Count Louis Hamon in1925, writing under the pseudonym Cheiro.21He forecast aviolent combination of political revolution, global war andnatural catastrophe that would be sufficientto destroy theknown world. The promise ...
... Society from 1920to 1952,and one of themost influential astrologers in the twentiethcentury Englishspeaking world. At first sight we might imagine Carter, being atheosophist, would be anticipating the New Agewith great excitement. Far ...