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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... . Popper definedthis as 'historicism', while hetermed the active engagement withthe historicalprocess as'activism'.He sawboth asmanifested primarilythrough the historical theories of Platoand Marx. In Marxism, for example, the.
... for example, the proletarian revolutionmaybe inevitable, but itisstill necessary to form a revolutionary vanguard to ensure that it happens. The New Age movement exhibits thesame paradox:while the dawningof NewAge isinevitable, it is ...
... for example, Hanegraaff, New Age Religion, p. 98. 10 Campion, The GreatYear; Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium (London,1970); FrankE. Manuel, Shapes of Philosophic History (London, 1965); F.E. Manuel and F.P.Manuel, Utopian ...
... For example, the Western zodiac signof Pisces nolonger occupies thesame portion ofsky asthe classical Greek constellationof Pisces. The astronomical details neednot concernus here, for they arejustavehicle on whichto hang acertain ...
... 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 norecord that anyastrologers of theera mentioned thefact ...
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