Astrology between religion and science

Where does astrology stand today?

Religious scholarship does not consider whether a religious idea is true or not. It considers only whether there are people who hold such ideas, and the effect of those ideas on their experiences. Thus the mysterious ideas that astrology teaches can be viewed in the same way as the ideas of life after death, purgatory, karma and reincarnation.
Modern astrology has to date received little attention by religious scholars, but most see modern astrology in the context of western esoterica. Thus for Christoph Bochinger it gains currency in the expectation of a "New Age" ("New Age" und moderne Religion, Gutersloh 1994), while for Antoine Faivre (Access to Western esoterism, New York 1994, and Esoterik im Uberblick, Freiburg 2001), and Wouter Hanegraaff, (New Age religion and Western culture: esotericism in the mirror of secular thought, Leiden 1996), modern astrology is a part of western esoterica.

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