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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... that it was only familiarin theosophical circles and was discovered by academicsonly in the late1970s orearly 1980s.13 The conceptof the NewAge as arecent –postcountercultural – and hence transient phenomenon has encouraged the view ...
... that it may beconsidered an integral part ofa twothousandyear lineage ofChristian apocalyptic thought, although of a more quietist, contemplative form than that favouredbymoremilitant forms of Christian millenarianism. The question ...
... that it is taken for granted.10 That belief in theAquarian Age is a given amongst astrologersis apparent to many who come into contact withthem. As Steve Nobel, of the Londonbased organisation Alternatives, reported in hisdiscussionof ...
... that 'It is probable that there is no branch of Astrology upon which more nonsense has been poured forth than the doctrine of the precessionof the equinoxes.'24 In 1951 he followed thisup withanother burst ofcontempt for the New Agers ...
... thatit might be only'different' from the outgoing Aquarian phase. Thereis notmuch advance here of Delaunaye's vague predictionof 'changements' and, in any case, human agency would shape theoutcome: as aPopperian activist, Carter wrote ...