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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... of the most notable astrologers, such asGuidoBonatti in the thirteenth century andThomas Campanella in the sixteenth ... ofthe celestial bodies, especially the Sun, which became amodel of all male deities and mythical heroes.The third ...
... of the Age of Aquarius. Thetwinconcepts ofthe Sun as the origin ofall male anthropomorphised religions (so thatall gods and divine saviours aresolar deities) andthe shift of zodiac signs through precession of the equinoxes as a guide ...
... of the concept of the AgeofAquarius and included justonereference tothesign Aquarius,inspired bythepoet, Chartist andspiritualist Gerald Massey, andhis reading ofthe 12tablets of theNimrod epic asa solar allegory.14It was Massey who ...
... ofthe conversations taking place,or reluctant toadopt such important information from outside their community. The earliest currently known referenceto the precessional ages occurred in the English astrologerA.J. Pearce's The Textbook ...
... ofthe Almighty God, theGod of thought. 'The Christ' isthe teacher, the'master spirit' allotted 'to every world and starand moon and sun'.24 Itwas fromsuch sourcesthatthe twentieth century's two mostinfluential theosophists, Rudolf ...