This special issue of the JSRNC picks up on York’s question and offers an insight into astrology’s culture-nature-religion link through the exploration of a community that incorporates an alternative epistemology. In The Scientific Basis of Astrology, the scientist who made headlines in 1984 with his suggestion that the Star of Bethlehem was a conjunction of Jupiter and. How does it impact on religious perceptions, on cultural institutions and on how we picture the universe?’ (York 2007: 146). The editor Michael York asked, ‘In terms of religion, nature and culture, the sociologist’s concern is the wish to understand how astrology is used. Bron Taylor argued that the role of the journal was a scholarly commitment to ‘a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, taboo free inquiry’ (Taylor 2007: 5) and thus accepted that the consideration of the nature of astrology was a worthwhile academic endeavour. We are now beginning to understand why, and people’s. It builds upon the second issue of the JSRNC published in 2007, which focused on astrology investigating the religion-nature nexus. Even though scientific studies have never found evidence for the claims astrologers make, some people still think astrology is scientific. Publication allows others in the scientific community to detect and correct these errors so that, over time, scientific knowledge increasingly. Individual scientists understand that, despite their best efforts, their methods can be flawed and their conclusions incorrect. This special issue offers an insider’s perspective on the practice of astrology in the contemporary world. The second is that publication allows science to be self-correcting.
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