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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... nature of the narrative that astrologers themselves weave about their role in society and their place in the cosmos ... natural philosophy, which is how it would have seemed to many medieval Aristotelians, it is likely to avoid Christian ...
... nature of the narrative that astrologers themselves weave about their role in society and their place in the cosmos ... natural philosophy, which is how it would have seemed to many medieval Aristotelians, it is likely to avoid Christian ...
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... natural scheme of things, astrology should have died out. Glick and Snyder noted that 'belief in astrology ... remains as prevalent today as ever, despite the lack of scientific evidence for such beliefs'.37 A typical view was expressed ...
... natural scheme of things, astrology should have died out. Glick and Snyder noted that 'belief in astrology ... remains as prevalent today as ever, despite the lack of scientific evidence for such beliefs'.37 A typical view was expressed ...
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... natural part of the modern world. We therefore arrive at the key historical question, which I hope will play a part in ... nature of secularism and modernity. 40 David J. Hess, Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, its Defenders and ...
... natural part of the modern world. We therefore arrive at the key historical question, which I hope will play a part in ... nature of secularism and modernity. 40 David J. Hess, Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, its Defenders and ...
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... nature from the 'cosmic' 16 Campion, The Great Year, pp. 104–31, 186–203. 17 Plato, Timaeus, trans. R.G. Bury (Cambridge MA and London, 1931), 22B–D, 39D. 18 Plato, Timaeus, 38C. 19 Abu Ma'shar, On Historical Astrology: The Book of ...
... nature from the 'cosmic' 16 Campion, The Great Year, pp. 104–31, 186–203. 17 Plato, Timaeus, trans. R.G. Bury (Cambridge MA and London, 1931), 22B–D, 39D. 18 Plato, Timaeus, 38C. 19 Abu Ma'shar, On Historical Astrology: The Book of ...
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... nature and the cosmos. From this simple assumption it follows that, if this order can be understood, history's purpose will become clear and once its purpose has been revealed, the future can be prophesied. The relationship between ...
... nature and the cosmos. From this simple assumption it follows that, if this order can be understood, history's purpose will become clear and once its purpose has been revealed, the future can be prophesied. The relationship between ...
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The Age of Aquarius | 21 |
The New Age | 29 |
The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | 41 |
New Age Astrology | 51 |
SunSign Astrology | 69 |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | 85 |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | 127 |
A Public Survey | 145 |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | 167 |
Interviews with Astrologers | 187 |
Modernity and Normality | 203 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Index | 247 |
Astrology Religion and Belief | 115 |
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Age astrology Age culture Age discipline Age Movement Age of Aquarius Alan Leo Alice Bailey amongst astrologers answers apocalyptic Aquarian Age argument asked astrological ages Astrological Association Astrological Journal Astrology London astrology’s attitudes to astrology behaviour belief in astrology Blavatsky Blavatsky’s British Astrological cent century Christian affiliation church claimed concerned conference Consciousness contemporary context cosmic cosmology Dane Rudhyar David Spangler definition of astrology divine Esoteric Astrology evidence example figures future human individual interest in astrology Leo’s literature MAJMA Michael Michael York millenarian Modern Astrology nature Naylor Neoplatonic Nicholas Campion NORWAC notion Occult one’s opinion Oxford Paranormal Patrick Curry Paul Heelas planets positive postmodern prediction Prophecy psychological astrology question questionnaire readership of horoscope reincarnation religious affiliation response sample sceptical sense Society Sociology spiritual stars Study of Religion suggests sun-sign theory theosophical tradition University Western Astrology York zodiac signs