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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... In the modern world, millenarianism hasadopted a number ofapparently secularforms, including,at itsmost violent and materialistic, Marxismand Nazism.26 Themost pervasive form ofsecular millenarianism in the modern West, though ...
... inwhich astronomical, and hence religious, iconography evolved withthe precession of theequinoxes. Hisscheme commenced in 15,194BCE, with the Sunin29 degrees of Libraat the spring equinox. This date, heargued, wasthe originofthe ...
... inwhich H.P. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in New Yorkin 1875.The society is themostimportant single institutional influence on the New Age movement, partly because ofits global reach, from the US toFrance, the UK, Germany ...
... in theteachings of Occult science', Blavatsky set out hertheory of cyclical history,in which complex patterns of cycles regulate a cosmos inwhich physical evolutionis dependent on spiritual evolution.10 In her own words, Therevolution ...
... inwhich human psychic projection onto the universe shifted when the vernal point moved into Pisces.26 Unlike Steiner and Bailey, Jung did notset out to createa movement of followers whose purpose was to instigate theNew Age.He wasfar ...