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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Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. predictive toolby which the coming crisis might be predicted, adapting the simple formsof prophecy from celestial signs familiar from the Old Testament.Isaiah, for example ...
Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. occurswhen the sun, moon, stars and planetsall return simultaneously to their locations at the ... from the 'cosmic' notion that great historical changescoincidewith the ...
... the apparently somewhat contradictory conception that the knowledge of our fate may help us toinfluence this fate.31 Astrology's explanatory power may therefore emerge from the same source asother, similar metanarratives. Inthis scheme ...
... a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes.2The consequence is the gradual separation of the socalled 'tropical zodiac', used in Western astrology, from the 'sidereal zodiac', which isbased onthe actual stars. For example, the ...
Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement Dr Nicholas Campion. the signs ... the 1960s, afteranother one andahalf centuries, thenotion of 'many changes' was to ... from the US toFrance, the UK, Germany and India, but also because of ...