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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... scientific revolution,or whether it may beconsidereda natural partof themodern world.We therefore arriveatthekey historical question, which I hopewillplay apart in the wider discussion of modern esotericism, new religious movements, New ...
... scientific error see Roger B. Culverand Philip A. Ianna,Astrology: True orFalse? A Scientific Evaluation, rev. edn (NewYork, 1988) andRonny Martens and Tim Trachet, Making Senseof Astrology (Amherst MA,1998). For Christian critiques see ...
... Scientific Methodology of alQabïsï and abū Ma'shar', Early Science and Medicine, 7/3 (2002), pp. 203–4. 31 Patrick Curry, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1989). 32 Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern ...
... scientific fact. The object ofthe Lodge isto forma strong bodyofearnest students, able tostudy and promulgate astrological truth,and to purify it from unworthy associations ofallsorts. In this workwe bespeak the help ofevery serious ...
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