Welcome to the Sophia Centre Press
The Sophia Centre Press will publish postgraduate work and conference proceedings in the field of cosmology in culture, within the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Sophia Centre Press is associated with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales, Lampeter. The Press publishes academic work which fulfils the Centre’s academic goals, which are 'to pursue research, scholarship and teaching in the relationship between astrological, astronomical and cosmological beliefs and theories, and society, politics, religion and the arts, past and present' and to 'to undertake the academic and critical examination of astrology and its practice'.
The study of cosmology in culture includes cultural astronomy and astrology. We define cultural astronomy as the ‘study of the application of beliefs about the stars to all aspects of human culture, from religion and science to the arts and literature’. It includes the new discipline of archaeoastronomy – the study of astronomical alignments, orientation and symbolism in architecture, ancient and modern. Astrology is 'the practice of relating the heavenly bodies to lives and events on earth, and the tradition that has thus been generated’.
We welcome enquiries and submissions of post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral research and conference proceedings for consideration