{"title":"Nicholas Campion","description":"Nicholas Campion is Associate Professor in Cosmology and Culture, Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Humanities and Education, and Programme Director of the on-line, distance-learning Master's degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.","products":[{"product_id":"a-history-of-western-astrology-volume-ii-the-medieval-and-modern-worlds-paperback","title":"A History of Western Astrology Volume II: The Medieval and Modern Worlds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAstrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign. In the modern west astrology thrives as part of our culture despite being a pre-Christian, pre-scientific world-view. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMedieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high theological speculation, was used to advise kings and popes, and to arrange any activity from the beginning of battles to the most auspicious time to have one's hair cut. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Spanning the period between the collapse of classical astrology in the fifth century and the rise of popular astrology on the web in the twentieth, Campion challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. \u003cbr\u003eConcluding with a discussion of astrology's popularity and appeal in the twenty-first century, Campion asks whether it should be seen as an integral part of modernity or as an element of the post-modern world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367052542175,"sku":"9781441181299","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kiz0FKaP1y9781441181299.webp?v=1789102271"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-western-astrology-volume-i-the-ancient-and-classical-worlds-paperback","title":"A History of Western Astrology Volume I: The Ancient and Classical Worlds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive examination of astrology's origins and it examines the foundations of a major feature of popular culture in the contemporary west, one which has its origins in the ancient world. Campion explores the relationship between astrology and religion, magic and science, and explores its use in politics and the arts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with the theories of the origins of religion in sun-worship, it spans the period between the first Paleolithic lunar counters around 30,000 BC and the end of the classical world and rise of Christianity. Campion challenges the idea that astrology was invented by the Greeks, and asks whether its origins lie in Near-Eastern religion, or whether it can be considered a decadent Eastern import to the West. He considers the evidence for reverence for the stars in Neolithic culture, Mesopotamian astral divination, Egyptian stellar religion, and examines attitudes to astrology and celestial prophecy in the Bible. He considers such artefacts as the mysterious, 15,000-year-old 'Venus of Lauselle', the reasons for the orientation of the pyramids, the latest theories on Stonehenge as a sacred observatory, Greek theories of the ascent of the soul to the stars and the Roman emporer Nero's use of astrology to persecute his rivals.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367054344415,"sku":"9781441127372","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M09T-kHAom9781441127372.webp?v=1789102274"},{"product_id":"cosmology-of-consciousness-quantum-physics-neuroscience-of-mind-paperback","title":"Cosmology of Consciousness: Quantum Physics \u0026 Neuroscience of Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e1. How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe. Menas Kafatos, Rudolph E. Tanzi, and Deepak Chopra2. Cosmological Foundations of Consciousness. Chris King3. 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