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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 259-279 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Astrology
/ Divination
/ Self-reflection
/ Cognitive dissonance
/ Modernity
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBF British Isles TA History |
| Further subjects: | B
trans-rational
B Spirituality B Divination B Legitimacy B Self-reflexivity B Dissonance |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2093234 |
