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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... example, Robert Wuthnow, Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticisms and Their Implicationsforthe Churches (Berkeley CA, 1978); Kurt Pawlik andLotharBuse, 'SelfAttribution asaModerator Variablein DifferentialPsychology ...
... example, holds thatthe coming crisis (for example)may beviolentand destructive, while 'post' or 'progressive millennialism' anticipates a calm and peaceful transition to an era of love.11 The coming age may be of this world, as inthe ...
... example, had forecast that,at theDay of Yahweh, when the final reckoning between humanity andGodwas due, '... the starsof the Heavens and their constellations will notgive their light;the Sun willbe darkatits rising andtheMoon ...
... representative ofa 'chaotic' cosmology, andof a different nature from the 'cosmic' notion that great historical changescoincidewith the predictable sequence order ofastronomical motions. Significant examples of predictable planetary.
... examples of predictable planetary patterns occurredin1484, whenitwas predicted that the Jupiter– Saturn conjunction ... example, had their own astrological perspective on the end of the world.22 Theories which assume a purpose in ...