Culture and Cosmos Vol 20 1 And 2

Culture and Cosmos Vol 20 1 And 2
Author: Nicholas Campion
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781907767746

A collection of papers from the 2014 University of Wales Trinity Saint David/ Sophia Centre conference on the Marriage of Heaven and Earth, held in Bath, UK.

Culture and Cosmos Vol 19 1 And 2

Culture and Cosmos Vol 19 1 And 2
Author: Nicholas Campion
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781907767739

The papers in this volume of Culture and Cosmos were originally presented at the 2013 University of Wales Trinity Saint David/ Sophia Centre conference on Celestial Magic.

Culture and Cosmos Vol 18 Number 1

Culture and Cosmos Vol 18 Number 1
Author: Nicholas Campion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781907767715

This issue of Culture and Cosmos contains a range of articles spanning the journal's remit - Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. Cesar Esteban explores theoretical issues in archaeoastronomy, drawing on his personal experience as an astrophysicist who has engaged with archaeology and arguing for the importance of landscape archaeology within archaeoastronomical research. Ronald Hutton's paper takes an entirely different perspective. As a historian, Hutton examines the extent to which modern historians have projected their assumptions on to the past, finding, for example, evidence for the worship of a mother Goddess in British megalithic culture. Esteban is an astrophysicist and Hutton is a historian but they share an insistence on critical rigour and a rejection of comfortable assumptions. Nick Kollerstrom represents the history of astrology, examining Galileo's connection with an apocalyptic astrological text. Clive Davenhall explores an equally curious footnote in the history of modern astronomy: the activities of the German showman Dr Katterfelto, who claimed to have made astronomical discoveries from his balloon. Lastly we include an interview with the distinguished print-maker and painter Geoff MacEwan, following an exhibition of his work inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy at the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. -Dr Nicholas Campion"

The Praxis of Alain Badiou

The Praxis of Alain Badiou
Author: Paul Ashton
Publisher: re.press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0980305209

"To mark the English translation of Etre et l'événement as Being and event, ... a special issue on the work of the philosopher Alain Badiou ... [encouraging] contributors to take up the challenge Badiou raises in Being and event ... and deploy his categories in thinking a particular situation - be it political, artistic, scientific or amorous."--Ch. 1.

Home

Home
Author: Alison Blunt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000555526

Home articulates a ‘critical geography of home’ in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on ‘Home and the City’ that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book’s chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale – house-as-home; the urban – city-as-home; national – nation-as-home; and homemaking in relation to transnational migration and diaspora. Each chapter includes illustrative examples from diverse geographical contexts and historical time periods. Chapters also address some of the key cross-cutting dimensions of home across these scales, including digital connectivity, art and performance, more-than-human constructions of home, and violence and dispossession. The book ends with a research agenda for home in a world of COVID-19. The book provides an understanding of home that has three intersecting dimensions: that material and imaginative geographies of home are closely intertwined; that home, power, and identity are intimately linked; and that geographies of home are multi-scalar. This framework, the examples used to illustrate it, and the intended audience of academics and students across the humanities and social sciences will together shape the field of home studies into the future.

Jesuit Astrology

Jesuit Astrology
Author: Luís Campos Ribeiro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004548971

Connections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

A History of Western Astrology Volume II

A History of Western Astrology Volume II
Author: Nicholas Campion
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441107495

Astrology 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. Medieval 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. Nicholas 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. Concluding 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.

Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 20

Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 20
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1400851033

The detailed general index to the authoritative English-language edition of Jung’s works This general index to the Collected Works of C. G. Jung is exceptionally comprehensive, indexing down to paragraph numbers. Some particularly important subjects are treated in subindexes, including alchemy, animals, the Bible, colors, Freud, Jung, and numbers. This is an essential reference tool for serious students of Jung.

The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective, Volume Two

The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective, Volume Two
Author: Joanna Jurewicz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527550095

This volume gathers together a broad spectrum of evaluations of the soul from different perspectives, including artistic (from literature and the arts), mystic and theological reflections on spirituality from the Christian religion, as well as from the Orient and Ancient Egypt. The contributions in this book will afford the reader a wider perspective on the concept of the soul in its ethical, emotional and theological dimensions, in both European and Non-European cultures and languages, and in artistic, philosophical and religious texts.