Cosmologies
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Sophia Centre Conference 2009
E d. Nicholas Campion
Paperback, 202 pp.
Publication 18 September 2010
Price: £25
In the Greek world the Cosmos was imagined as eminently ordered and perfectly beautiful. In modern science the cosmos is ‘out there’, but in traditional societies it is not just all around, but ‘in here’, permeating everything; objects, thoughts and feelings. The ‘Cosmologies’ conference in 2009 was the seventh in a series of annual conferences hosted by the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, based in the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Trinity St David. The papers published in this volume, which represent the breadth of the Centre’s work, include a variety of approaches to understanding the many ways in which human beings relate their lives to the cosmos, from the ancient to the modern, and using approaches informed by history and anthropology.
The contributors include Pauline Bambrey, Glenford Bishop, Frances Clynes, Martin Gansten, Ronald Hutton, Helen Jacobus, Jane Ridder-Patrick, Lionel Sims and Mark Williams
The proceedings of the seventh annual conference of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture,University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, 6-7 June 2009.
Edited by Nicholas Campion
Contents
Images
Acknowledgement
Introduction: 'Cosmologies'
Coves, Cosmology and Cultural Astronomy
Calendars and Divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Case of 4Q318: 4QZodiac Calendar and Brontologion
Reshaping Karma: an Indic Metaphysical Paradigm in Traditional and Modern Astrology
Néladóracht: Druidic Cloud-Divination in Medieval Irish Literature
Astrology in the Seventeenth-Century Scottish Universities
Decoding the Inter-Textual Literary Strata of the Mummers’ Play: Some Unexpected Astronomical Themes and a Pagan ‘Fingerprint’ — Continuity or Reconstruction?
The Beltane Fire Festival: its Place in a Contemporary World
The Traditional Festivals of Northern Europe
Cyberspace and the Sacred Sky
Contributors
Index