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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... academic work.Inhis literature review of2005,Ivan Kelly concluded that astrology 'offersno valid contribution to understanding ourselves,not ourplace in the cosmos'.24 Even Kelly, though, was equivocal: removing the word 'valid ...
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... academic works onthe new spirituality in the 1970s did not use theterm, suggesting that it was only familiarin ... academics Irwinpronounced the New Age 'dead', Melton talkedof 'post New Age', announcing that 'the New Age Movement has ...
... academics, journalists and consumers ishighly relevantto the problemof whether astrologyis correctly classified asNew Age. There is some academic debate about whether New Age culture constitutes a 'movement' inany meaningful cultural or ...
... academic point of view, on theother.34 Wouter Hanegraaff's labelsfor these two levels of New Age activity and affiliation are NewAge sensu stricto (in a restricted, narrow sense)and NewAge sensulato (in a wide sense).35The New Agesensu ...