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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... literature review of2005,Ivan Kelly concluded that astrology 'offersno valid contribution to understanding ourselves,not ourplace in the cosmos'.24 Even Kelly, though, was equivocal: removing the word 'valid'stillenables astrology ...
... literature, such as Oswald Spengler's The Decline ofthe West,to Renaissance astrological theories, making the point that ancientideas continuetoexert a profound effect.24 Astrology's significance as a model of apocalyptic thought ...
... literature which can be traced backto theancient Near East, especially to the Old Testament. Second, allthe documentary evidence indicates thatthe use of theshift ofthe constellations as a technical basisfor such prophecies appears to ...
... literature, especially since Gordon Melton set the launch date as 1971.12 The first academic works onthe new spirituality in the 1970s did not use theterm, suggesting that it was only familiarin theosophical circles and was discovered ...
... literature. For example, as a key New Ageauthor, William Bloom identified four facetsof New Age:new science (including new forms of healing), ecology, newpsychology and spiritual dynamics.36 From combiningthe writing ofNew Agers with ...