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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... sociologists who have studied thetopic, we can identify the following key qualitiesof any New Age idea or practice. 1. A belief that the divine exists within each human being, rather than being purely external. The individual is,then ...
... sociologists ofreligioninthe field, New Age beliefs can be summedupas 'selfspirituality', and he seesitas based inthe 'selfethic',the needto take responsibility forone'sown actions.41 Heelas refersto 'epistemological individualists',for ...
... Sociologists certainly tendto assume that this isso. Paul Heelas, whose knowledge ofthe astrologicalmilieu isslight, allowedfor some uncertainty, writing that 'some have supposed that the development EndTimes: The New Age and the Age of ...
... sociologists, critics of astrology and some astrologers, that they areone and the same.The former dependsona valuefree prediction that history istied to the precessionof the equinoxes and postulates endless change,butnot necessarilyan ...