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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... example, John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (Cambridge, 1996). Theories which assume a purpose in history tend to be bound up with concepts of order in nature and the cosmos. From this simple ...
... example, John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (Cambridge, 1996). Theories which assume a purpose in history tend to be bound up with concepts of order in nature and the cosmos. From this simple ...
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... example, the proletarian revolution may be inevitable, but it is still necessary to form a revolutionary vanguard to ensure that it happens. The New Age movement exhibits the same paradox: while the dawning of New Age is inevitable, it ...
... example, the proletarian revolution may be inevitable, but it is still necessary to form a revolutionary vanguard to ensure that it happens. The New Age movement exhibits the same paradox: while the dawning of New Age is inevitable, it ...
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... example, the Western zodiac sign of Pisces no longer occupies the same portion of sky as the classical Greek constellation of Pisces. 2 Jacqueline Mitton, The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy (London, 1993), pp. 306–7. The astronomical ...
... example, the Western zodiac sign of Pisces no longer occupies the same portion of sky as the classical Greek constellation of Pisces. 2 Jacqueline Mitton, The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy (London, 1993), pp. 306–7. The astronomical ...
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... example of the use of precession of the equinoxes to predict the future by astrologers until the late nineteenth century. There are indeed arguments that precession was used by astrologers in the ancient world, but they are based ...
... example of the use of precession of the equinoxes to predict the future by astrologers until the late nineteenth century. There are indeed arguments that precession was used by astrologers in the ancient world, but they are based ...
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... example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and 2,000 BCE, bull-gods were worshipped. There was, though, a difference in explanations for this phenomenon between the atheists, such as the ...
... example, it was said that when the Sun rose in Taurus, which it did roughly between 4,000 and 2,000 BCE, bull-gods were worshipped. There was, though, a difference in explanations for this phenomenon between the atheists, such as the ...
المحتوى
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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