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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... century BCE, Plato argued that schoolingin the abstract arts, including astronomy, mathematics and music, allof which revealed theessential orderinthe cosmos, was essential ifthegood citizenwere to engage with history and delay or ...
... century BCE, borrowing from the Egyptians the concept ofperiodic global conflagrations and formulatingthe period knownasa 'complete' or'great' year, the periodof time which separates the beginningofthe world fromitsend, which occurswhen ...
... centuries, there were two principal astrological means of predicting the coming of the millennium. Onthe one hand, there were signs and wonders in the sky– the disorderly, if divinely ordained, events ofthe Old Testament, such as comets ...
... century.The Mormons, for example, had their own astrological perspective on the end of the world.22 Theories which assume a purpose in history tendto be bound upwith concepts of order in nature and the cosmos. From thissimple assumption ...
... century the millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' have often been used assynonyms. They are not, in spite of the many writerswho regard them asidentical, the same. As an astrological prophecy, theAge of Aquarius is based on ...