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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... stars willbe falling fromheaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And thenthey will see the Son of man, coming in cloudswith greatpower and glory.15 Thesimple astrology of the Old Testament prophets andthe canonical gospels ...
... stars and planetsall return simultaneously to their locations at the creation.17 The planets' Platonic functionwas not tocause orinfluence events in earth,but to indicate the changing qualities oftheunfolding of the cosmic order and,by ...
... stars and constellations in relationto the sun'slocation atthe spring equinox, usually on 21 March,a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes.2The consequence is the gradual separation of the socalled 'tropical zodiac', used ...
... stars causedby theprecession of the equinoxes as a means of dating the historyofthe Indian sacredtexts, the Vedas. The theory that religion and astronomy shared common origins was developed inthe revolutionary atmosphere of1790s France ...