Astrology, modernity and the project of self-identity
This speculative and interdisciplinary article about Western and UK astrology recognises a fluid craft steeped in pre-modern ‘magical’ symbolism accommodating to differing degrees the modern, linear and literal. It embraces an open framework and employs personal experience that highlights the proble...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor and Francis Group
2020
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 21, Heft: 3, Seiten: 259-279 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
England
/ Astrologie
/ Divination
/ Selbstreflexion
/ Kognitive Dissonanz
/ Modernität
/ Geschichte
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Religionspsychologie AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen KBF Britische Inseln TA Geschichte |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
trans-rational
B Spirituality B Divination B Legitimacy B Self-reflexivity B Dissonance |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This speculative and interdisciplinary article about Western and UK astrology recognises a fluid craft steeped in pre-modern ‘magical’ symbolism accommodating to differing degrees the modern, linear and literal. It embraces an open framework and employs personal experience that highlights the problems with self-understanding. Astrology may appear detached from its traditional religious foundation and has struggled for cultural legitimacy, but it offers a spiritual understanding, self-knowledge and self-determination. It divines a range of symbolic possibilities that encourages elective biography and instructs the project of self-identity. This in part assuages the existential need to find meaning, questioning established thinking and ‘rational’ cultural practices. Astrology embeds a spiritual outlook that co-exists with profane individualism and materiality highlighting dissonant modernity. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5629 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2093234 |