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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor and Francis Group
2020
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Culture and religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 21, Numéro: 3, Pages: 259-279 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
England
/ Astrologie
/ Divination
/ Réflexion sur soi-même
/ Dissonance cognitive
/ Modernité
/ Histoire
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBF Îles britanniques TA Histoire |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
trans-rational
B Spirituality B Divination B Legitimacy B Self-reflexivity B Dissonance |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2093234 |