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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... Theosophical Society.10 By the 1870s the term 'New Age' had become an established metaphor for the Swedenborgian spiritual era, and by the 1900s it was being used by Theosophists such as Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, editors of ...
... theosophical New Age movement, which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century. The 1960s brought New Age thinking a renewed vigour, but the notion that New Age is a legacy of the counter-culture is contradicted by the ...
... theosophical astrology , Modern Astrology . 19 The conscious sense of participating in a movement intended to encourage the smooth transition to the New Age extended to the world of theosophical astrology . By 1940 the following ...
... Theosophical Association of New York , formed a small meditation group ' to discuss the Plan of the Masters of the Wisdom and to meditate for a while on our part in it'.21 The volume of correspondence generated by Bailey's first three ...
... theosophical and anthroposophical and is concerned with the coming historical transition, the entry into the Age of Aquarius and the resulting urgent need to find means of spiritual transformation in order to prepare for the coming of ...
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The New Age and the Age of Aquarius | |
New Age Astrology | |
SunSign Astrology | |
The Survival of Belief in Astrology | |
Astrology Religion and Belief | |
The Extent of Belief in Astrology | |
A Public Survey | |
percentages | |
The Astrologers Universe of Discourse | |
compared with Moore 1960 | |
Interviews with Astrologers | |
Modernity and Normality | |