Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age MovementRoutledge, 15/04/2016 - 264 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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... century the millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' have often been used as synonyms. They are not, in spite of the many writers who regard them as identical, the same. As an astrological prophecy, the Age of Aquarius is based ...
... century the millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' have often been used as synonyms. They are not, in spite of the many writers who regard them as identical, the same. As an astrological prophecy, the Age of Aquarius is based ...
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... century and Thomas Campanella in the sixteenth century, as a major problem.5 At no time was it considered a possible source of astrological forecasts. 3 David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in ...
... century and Thomas Campanella in the sixteenth century, as a major problem.5 At no time was it considered a possible source of astrological forecasts. 3 David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in ...
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... centuries, the notion of 'many changes' was to become popularly associated with the coming of the Age of Aquarius. 6 ... century. As a simple example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and ...
... centuries, the notion of 'many changes' was to become popularly associated with the coming of the Age of Aquarius. 6 ... century. As a simple example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and ...
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... centuries. Blavatsky set herself two goals. The first was to recover what she considered to be the lost wisdom of a once-universal human civilisation by bringing together its surviving fragments from Indian, Platonic, Hermetic and ...
... centuries. Blavatsky set herself two goals. The first was to recover what she considered to be the lost wisdom of a once-universal human civilisation by bringing together its surviving fragments from Indian, Platonic, Hermetic and ...
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... century, to which the Samaritans are still looking forward for the coming of their Messiah, who has not yet arrived for them'.15 This, from 1887, marks the earliest reference I have found to the Age of Aquarius in the English language ...
... century, to which the Samaritans are still looking forward for the coming of their Messiah, who has not yet arrived for them'.15 This, from 1887, marks the earliest reference I have found to the Age of Aquarius in the English language ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
Belief in Astrology | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
With Their Own Voices | |
Modernity and Normality | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
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