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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... sense, and whether, if it is not, it is a network.32 Such arguments are largely ones of semantics which do not alter the substance of the discussion. In any case, Blavatsky, Bailey and Rudolf Steiner all deliberately set out to create ...
... sense) and New Age sensu lato (in a wide sense).35 The New Age sensu stricto is heavily theosophical and anthroposophical and is concerned with the coming historical transition, the entry into the Age of Aquarius and the resulting ...
... sense that they believe the New Age is coming) is not the case. Simply, the critics who assume that astrologers are all New Agers and that the Aquarian and New Ages are identical, are guilty of the cardinal academic sin: a failure to ...
... sense, there is a process of invention, not out of nothing but on the basis of an existing tradition, a phenomenon explored by Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger and Stephen Bann, and introduced to the study of religion by Steven Vertovec.13 ...
... sense of the word : the individual and his or her values and interests become the focus of attention in the universe . Leo argued that understanding one's character and past , including past lives , was therefore central to the control ...
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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 | |