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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... evidence and lack any textual support. David Ulansey, for example, has proposed that Mithras, the hero of the Roman mystery teachings named after him, was responsible for shifting the constellations.3 The problem, however,isthere is ...
... evidence indicates thatthe use of theshift ofthe constellations as a technical basisfor such prophecies appears to be a product of late eighteenthcentury atheism, filtered through theosophy and then adoptedby astrologers. We are ...
... Evidences, and Early History of Christianity (London, 1829). 9 SeeBruce H.Campbell, Ancient Wisdom Revived:A Historyof the Theosophical Movement (Berkeley, 1980). 10 H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (2 vols, Los Angeles, 1982), vol ...
... evidence. TheNewAgewas notinventedin the 1970s: itjust discovered a wider audience. This is important because if NewAge thought isplaced within its historical contextit can nolonger be seen asafad which is likelyto disappear. We can ...
... evidence for the Age's approach. The other relatesto thepast, and offers ahistorical cosmology which providesan account ofsocial and religious development, replacingthe moreconventional scheme based on Jupiter–Saturn conjunctions. The ...