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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... zodiac', used in Western astrology, from the 'sidereal zodiac', which isbased onthe actual stars. For example, the Western zodiac signof Pisces nolonger occupies thesame portion ofsky asthe classical Greek constellationof Pisces. The ...
... astrology, on the grounds that the planets no longer occupied theparts ofthe zodiac claimed by Western astrologers.The earliest extant exampleof precession being used toundermine astrology was penned bythe Church fatherOrigen (c.185–254) ...
... astrologers. We are therefore dealing with a clear exampleof an'invented tradition', butone which has deep roots inthe Western mentality. 1Rudolf Steiner, The Reappearance ofChrist in theEtheric (SpringValley NY, 1983),
... Western culture criticism expressedinterms of a secularised esotericism'.50 The prime example wouldbe Swedenborgianism, withits combination of esotericism but its rejectionofestablished religion. Others agree– as JoscelynGodwin ...
... Western millenarianism, achieved a modern form in the late eighteenth century. New Age culture isnot static.It flourishedin esoteric circles in the early twentieth century, combined with countercultural radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s ...