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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... tothe establishment ofright human relations through Education, spiritual discipline, and meditation. The foundationsfor a new world ordercan be established ...[through]...group work in preparation for the Aquarian Age' (Lucis Trust 1984) ...
... tothe supposed end of the Maya Calendarin December 2012.54 The underlying cultural patterns, though, continue. New ... to the transformational matrix: relativity, personal development andtheselfethic. TheNew Agemovement, as itexiststoday ...
... tothe NewAge. TheNewAge, meanwhile, only assumes areal millenarian force when the coming shiftinto Aquarius endows itwithimminent, objective power. The two ages'power asa mnemonic focusfor prophetic expectations comes from thesimple ...
... tothe late 1970s, going into 13reprints by 1973.16 Through The Textbook's pages the notion of2,000 year astrologically determined periods of history became anunquestioned part of themodern astrology student's education.Two featuresare ...
... to the Deluge, lunar and fertility goddess cults. 6,000 BCE.Age of Gemini, corresponding to cults of twins, such as ... tothe AgeofAquarius is not open to question(for itmust happen as assuredlyasthe constellations move), whether it ...