Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Future Dreams 2. End Times: Utopia and the Millennium 3. Enlightenment and Progress in the 18th century 4. The Theosophical Enlightenment in the 19th century 5. New Age and Transcendence in the 20th century 6. Myth and the Millennium in the Sixties 7. Counterculture and Utopia after the Sixties 8. Remaking the World: Neoconservatism and the Global Utopia 9. Conclusion: Making the Future

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An exploration of the history and development of New Age thinking from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.

About the Author

Nicholas Campion is Senior Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is director of the University's Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, and programme director of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology.

Reviews

The New Age in the Modern West is refreshingly well researched and even-handed. Taking an intriguing perspective on the New Age from the history of ideas, he includes it in the ‘‘family’’ of ideas in Western culture that includes millenarianism and utopianism … [T]his book is a useful contribution to the academic study of the New Age and would appeal to scholars and students invested in this emerging disciplinary area.
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