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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... on the grounds that it does not make scientific claims. On the other hand, if it is natural philosophy, which is how it would have seemed to many medieval Aristotelians, it is likely to avoid Christian censure but arouse scientific ire ...
... on the astrologer's judgement . In some versions of judicial astrology , the astrologer is an observer , dispassionately analysing the manifestation of astrological principles in terrestrial affairs . In other versions , which have been ...
... on the New Age ( Albany NY , 1992 ) , pp . 179–88 . For sociological studies see , for example , Robert Wuthnow , Experimentation in American Religion : The New Mysticisms and Their Implications for the Churches ( Berkeley CA , 1978 ) ...
... on the observation of unexpected events in the sky which could be interpreted as warnings that God's divine order was about to break down. In scriptural cosmology normal astronomical order expressed through the cycles of Sun and Moon ...
... on the one hand and ' chaotic ' on the other , following Mircea Eliade's two models of the origins of the universe.20 The belief that God will warn of the End by means of random events is representative of a ' chaotic ' cosmology , and ...
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SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
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The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
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Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |