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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... millenarianism hasadopted a number ofapparently secularforms, including,at itsmost violent and materialistic, Marxismand ... millenarian thought, observed byKarl Popper,isthe paradoxical beliefthat active participation inthe historical ...
... millenarian framework, as aprincipal activist discipline. Interventionin the historical process can be of different varieties dependingof one ofthree possible eschatons: one is in the mind and involves apersonal entry into the Kingdom ...
... Millenarianism and Historyinthe Western Tradition (London, 1994). 4Revelation 20.2–7; Matthew 12.32. 5 Revelation 21.1–2. 6 See, forexample, J. Bradley Chance, Jerusalem, the Temple, andthe New Age inLukeActs (Georgia, 1988); John ...
... Millenarian Movements in Historical Context (New York and London, 1992), pp. 223–337. 27 John Baillie,The Beliefin Progress (London, Glasgow, Toronto, 1951), pp.64–5. 28 J.B. Bury, The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Growth and ...
... millenarian terms 'New Age' and 'Age of Aquarius' have often been used assynonyms. They are not, in spite of the many writerswho regard them asidentical, the same. As an astrological prophecy, theAge of Aquarius is based on the ideaof ...