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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... Religion, pp. 409, 521. 51Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment (New York, 1994), p. xi. 52William Braden, The Age of Aquarius: Technology andthe Cultural Revolution (London, 1971), p. 17. 53Miller, ACrash Course, p. 4; see ...
... and religious development, replacingthe moreconventional scheme based on Jupiter–Saturn conjunctions. The chronological framework is usually based ondivision into 2,160 (or 2,000) year periods, the main characteristics ofwhich are ...
... religion, for eachAge produces its corresponding religious forms, and all religions are seenasa path to theultimate truth:there is aprofound cultural relativism at theheart of Aquarian Age thinking. In 1951 Hone wrote that 'Each age ...