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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... modern seers', and disseminated his ideas through the Theosophical Society.10 Bythe 1870s the term 'NewAge' had become an establishedmetaphor for the Swedenborgian spiritualera, and bythe 1900s it was being usedby Theosophists such.
... 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, fuelledby veteran NewAgers ...
... theosophical astrologersand confidantes ofAlan Leo, the most influential British astrologer of theearly twentieth century.18 Barley had been the subeditor ofLeo's magazine and propaganda vehiclefor theosophical astrology, Modern ...
... theosophical offshoot, the Arcane School, in 1923, she was quiteexplicit that she was creating a group of individuals whose purposewas to bringtheNew Age into being. In 1937 Bailey had discussed the importanceof the creation ofgroups in ...
... and affiliation are NewAge sensu stricto (in a restricted, narrow sense)and NewAge sensulato (in a wide sense).35The New Agesensu strictois heavily theosophical and anthroposophical and is concerned with the coming historical.