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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... study of astrology's contemporary cultural status may shed light on the condition of modern society as a whole. As Grace Davie has argued, 'by looking at the way that society reacts tonew religious movements and the controversy they ...
... study cannot tackle the psychological,it does aim tolay the ground for social research bycuttingthrough the polemics which normally dominate public discourse on astrology– whether foror against–and begin toestablish a sociological ...
... study of cultural astronomies is concerned with the diversity of ways in which cultures, both ancient and modern, perceive celestial objects and integrate them into their viewof theworld. This fact, by definition, illustrates thata ...
... studies see, for example, Robert Wuthnow, Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticisms and Their ... studies see Derek Parker, The Question of Astrology:A Personal Investigation (London, 1970) and Neil Spencer, Trueasthe ...
... Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations Across Timeand Space (Durham NC,2005),p.15. 34C.Ruggles andJ. Saunders, Astronomies and Cultures (Boulder CO, 1993), p.1. 35 Michael Hill, A Sociologyof Religion (London, 1979), p. 247. 36 ...