Nicholas Campion

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Mae Nicholas Campion yn hanesydd ag arbenigedd mewn anthropoleg ac astudio crefyddau. Mae’n Athro Cysylltiol Cosmoleg a Diwylliant, yn Brif Ddarlithydd yn yr Athrofa Addysg a’r Dyniaethau, ac yn Gyfarwyddwr Canolfan Sophia ar gyfer Astudio Cosmoleg a Diwylliant, yr unig Ganolfan academaidd yn y byd sy’n ymdrin â chysylltiadau diwylliannol â’r awyr a’r cosmos. Mae’n gyfrifol am symud gweithgareddau ymchwil ac addysgu’r Ganolfan ymlaen, trwy oruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD, noddi prosiectau ymchwil, trefnu cynadleddau a digwyddiadau eraill, a chyhoeddi ymchwil. Mae’n Gyfarwyddwr Sefydliad Cytgord, a sefydlwyd yn 2016 ac a gafodd y dasg o ddatblygu’r syniadau a nodwyd yn y llyfr ‘Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World’ yn 2010, gan Noddwr y Brifysgol, Ei Fawrhydi y Brenin Charles III, Ei Uchelder Brenhinol Tywysog Cymru ar y pryd, gyda Tony Juniper ac Ian Skelly.

Pynciau Arbenigol

Ei bwnc craidd yw hanes, diwylliant ac athroniaeth astroleg, seryddiaeth a chosmoleg.

Profiad Proffesiynol a/neu Ymchwil

Nicholas yw Cyfarwyddwr Golygyddol Gwasg Canolfan Sophia, sy'n cyhoeddi mewn partneriaeth â'r Brifysgol ac sy'n cynnwys y cyfnodolyn a adolygir gan gymheiriaid, Culture and Cosmos, a'r cyfnodolyn ôl-raddedig, Spica.

Cymwysterau

BA Hanes, Coleg y Frenhines, Caergrawnt 1975
MA Astudiaethau De-ddwyrain Asia, Ysgol Astudiaethau Dwyreiniol ac Affricanaidd, Llundain, 1976
PhD Astudio Crefyddau, Prifysgol Bath Spa, 2004

Ieithoedd a Siaradwyd

Saesneg

Aelodaeth Broffesiynol neu Rôl

Mae'n aelod o Bwyllgor Rhyngwladol Ysbrydoliaeth Ffenomenau Seryddol (INSAP). Mae hefyd yn aelod o Rwydwaith Astudiaethau Cymdeithasol y Gofod; y Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Iwtopaidd; y Gymdeithas Astroarchaeocawcasws; y Gymdeithas Brydeinig er Astudio Crefy

Cydnabyddiaeth neu Wobrau Allanol

2022: Gwobr Carlos Jaschek am gyfraniad eithriadol i astudio Seryddiaeth a Diwylliant, y Gymdeithas Ewropeaidd er Astudio Seryddiaeth a Diwylliant (SEAC).

2023: Cymrodoriaeth yr Academi Addysg Uwch 2023: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

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Cyhoeddiadau Proffesiynol

2015: The New Age in the Modern West: Counter-Culture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (London: Bloomsbury). http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-new-age-in-the-modern-west-9781350036819/
2012: Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions (New York: New York University Press). https://nyupress.org/books/9780814717141/
2012: Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement (Farnham: Ashgate; London: Routledge, 2015). https://www.routledge.com/Astrology-and-Popular-Religion-in-the-Modern-West-Prophecy-Cosmology/Campion/p/b
2009: A History of Western Astrology Vol. 2: The Medieval and Modern Worlds (London: Bloomsbury/Continuum). http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-history-of-western-astrology-volume-ii-9781441181299/
2009: A History of Western Astrology Vol. 1: The Ancient World (London: Continuum), [first published as The Dawn of Astrology: A Cultural History of Western Astrology Vol. 1, The Ancient and Classical Worlds, (London: Bloomsbury/Continuum)]. http://www.
1994: The Great Year: Astrology, Millenarianism and History in the Western Tradition (London: Penguin).
2020: The Harmony Debates; exploring a practical philosophy for a sustainable future (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2020: in partnership with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Sustainable Food Trust) https://sophiacentrepress.com/publ
2018: (ed. with Jenn Zahrt) Astrology as Art: Representation and Practice (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press). https://sophiacentrepress.com/publication/astrology-as-art/
2018: (ed. with Chris Impey) Imagining Other Worlds: Explorations in Astronomy and Culture, Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press. https://sophiacentrepress.com/publication/imagining-other-worlds/
2016: (ed.) Heavenly Discourses (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press), Proceedings of the Heavenly Discourses Conference, University of Bristol, 14-16 October 2011. ISBN 978-1-907767-07-4 http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/book/heavenly-discourses/
2016: (ed. with Dorian Greenbaum), Astrology in Time and Place: Cross-Cultural Currents in the History of Astrology (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). http://www.cambridgescholars.com/astrology-in-time-and-place
2016: (ed. with Barbara Rappenglück, Michael Rappenglück and Fabio Silva) Astronomy and Power: How Worlds are Structured (Oxford: British Archaeology Reports). https://www.barpublishing.com/book/astronomy-and-power-how-worlds-are-structured/
2015: (with F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, F. Silva, A. Joaquinito and L. Tirapicos (eds), Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy – a Meeting of Different Worlds (Oxford: British Archaeology Reports). http://www.barpublishing.com/
2015: (with Fabio Silva), Skyscapes – The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology (Oxford: Oxbow). https://www.oxbowbooks.com/9781782978404/skyscapes/
2013: (with Liz Greene), Sky and Symbol (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press). http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/book/sky-and-symbol/
2011: (with Liz Greene), Astrologies: Plurality and Diversity (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press). http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/book/astrologies/
2010: Cosmologies: Proceedings of the Seventh Sophia Centre Conference, 2009 (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press). http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/book/cosmologies-2nd-ed/
2006: (with Patrick Curry), Sky and Psyche, Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Sky and Psyche (Edinburgh: Floris Books). https://www.florisbooks.co.uk/book/Nicholas-Campion/Sky+and+Psyche/9780863155666
2025: ‘The Comets of 1618 and Astrological Prognostication in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Cliff Cunningham (ed.), Cosmic Events: The Three Comets of 1618 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2025).
2025: ‘Countering the threat of space pollution: awareness raising via sustainability narratives’, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 385, 2023, ed. John Barantiine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
2025: ‘Teaching the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David: The Postgraduate Reflexive Sky Journal’, Culture and Cosmos, Vol 29 no 1 and 2 2025 (paper delivered at the twelfth conference on the Inspiration of
2025, ‘Creating a Curriculum in Cultural Astronomy: Further Thoughts with Attention to Definitions of Culture, and Educational and Methodological Theory’, SEAC 2023 conference publication (forthcoming 2024). From a paper delivered at the 29th Annual Confe
2025, ‘Time, Disease and Harmony with the Heavens: Reconsidering Astrological Medicine in the Sevententh Century’ in L. Kostuch, S. Konarska-Zimnicka, B. Wojciechowska (eds) Medicina antiqua, mediaevalis et moderna. Historia, filozofia, religia. III', (
2025: ‘Religious Time’ in the Cultural History of Religion, Vol 4, The Enlightenment, ed. Brett McInelly (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).
2025: ‘Religious Time’ in the Cultural History of Religion, Vol 6, The Modern Age., ed. Marion Bowman (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).
2023: ‘Teaching Cultural Astronomy: An Update from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David], in Cultural Astronomy and Ancient Sky Watching, Proceedings of the SEAC conference, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 6-8 September 2021. ed. Penka Maglova (Plo
2023: ‘Modern Western Astrology as a Form of Indigenous Thought and Practice’, in William Burns (ed.), Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to COVID (London: Palgrave MacMillan 2023).
2022 ‘Belief’ in George D. Chryssides and Amy R. Whitehead (eds), Contested Concepts in the Study of Religion (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 9-13.
2022 ‘Exploring Theory in Skyscape Archaeology: Symbols, Materiality, Relationality and Rhizomes, in Fabio Silva and Liz Henty, Solarizing the Moon: Essays in Honour of Lionel Sims (Oxford: Archaeopress 2022), pp. 182-199.
2022: The Planets in Alchemy and Astrology (Medieval and Renaissance), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science, (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2022).
2021: ‘Astrology in Greek and Roman Culture’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science, (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2021).
2021: ‘Johannes’ Kepler’s Political Cosmology, Psychological Astrology and the Archaeology of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century’ in Sonja Draxler, Max E. Lippitsch and Gudrun Wolfschmidt (eds), Harmony and Symmetry: celestial regularities shaping human
2020: ‘The Value of Skyscape Archaeology’, Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, Vol. 6 no 1, Sumer Solstice 2020, pp. 94-7.
2020: ‘Einstein’s Cosmic Religion’, Intersections of Religion and Astronomy, ed. Aaron Ricker, Danny Dinnel and Christopher Corbally (London: Routledge, Religion and Science series), pp. 115-126.
2020: ‘Dark Skies, Wellbeing and the Wonder of the Sky’, Dark Sky Journal Vol. 1 no 1.
2020: ‘Harmony and the Crisis in Early Modern Cosmology: the Political Astrology of Jean Bodin and Johannes Kepler’, in Astrology versus Anti-Astrology in Early Modern Europe: Changing Paradigms in the History of Knowledge, Ed. Charles Burnett and Ovanes
2020: ’Astrology’ in the Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism, ed. Egil Asprem, Leiden: Leiden: Brill).
2019: ‘Astrology in Greek and Roman Culture’, in Peter Read (editor- in-chief), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019: ‘Astrology’ in the Sage Encyclopaedia of the Sociology of Religion (ed. Adam Passamai and Anthony J. Blassi), London: Sage.
2018: ‘Astronomy, Ethics and the Planets’, Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry Vol. 18, issue 4,
2018: ‘Utopia and Just War: the Invasion of Iraq in 2003’, in Libros dela Corte, no 16, AÑO 10, Primavera-Verano, 2018’, pp. 253-266,
2018: ‘Adventures in Space: Harmony, Sustainability and Environmental Ethics’ in Nicholas Campion and Chris Impey (eds), Imagining Other Worlds: Explorations in Astronomy and Culture, Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, pp. 69-85.
2017: ‘The Importance of Cosmology in Culture: Contexts and Consequences’, in Abraao Jesse Capistrano de Souza (ed.), Cosmology (Rijeka: InTech Open, 2017), pp. 3-17.
2016 ‘Astronomy and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Isaac Newton’s Influence on the Enlightenment and Politics’, in Jean Paul Hernandez, Cesar Gonzalez Garcia . Giulio Magli, Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro and Lorenzo Verderame (eds), Astronomy in Past
2016 ‘Archaeoastronomy and Calendar Cities’ in Daniel Brown (ed.), Modern Archaeoastronomy: from Material Culture to Cosmology, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 865, 2016, pp. 1-7.
2015: ‘Religion, Archaeology and Modern Calendar Buildings: A study of Avon Tyrrell House in England’, Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, Special Issue: Religion, Archaeology and Folklore, Volume 28.2 (2015), pp. 176-90.
2015: Campion, Nicholas and Gale Dreyer, Ronnie, ‘Indian Astrology’, in David Kim (ed.), Modern History of Asian Religions, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp 163-191.
2015: Campion, Nicholas and Gale Dreyer, Ronnie, ‘Indian Astrology’, in David Kim (ed.), Modern History of Asian Religions, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp 163-191.
2015: ‘Astronomy, Community and Modern Calendar Buildings’, in Abbott, B.P. (ed.) Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VIII: City of Stars, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, vol. 501 (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacifi
2015: ‘Babylonian Astrology’ in Helaine Selin (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2015.
2015: Nicholas Campion, ‘Cosmos and Cosmology’, in Robert Segal and Kocku von Stukrad (eds), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Leiden: Brill,2015), pp. 359-64.
2015, ‘Defining Astrology in Ancient and Classical History’, in 2015: (N. Campion, F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, F. Silva, A. Joaquinito and L. Tirapicos (eds), Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy – a Meeting of Different Worlds
2014: Campion, Nicholas, ‘Astrology as Cultural Astronomy’, Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (ed. Clive Ruggles) (Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2014), pp. 103-116.
2014: ‘Astrology’ in Christopher Partridge (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Occult (London: Routledge).
2014: ‘John Whiteside Parsons’ in Christopher Partridge (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Occult (London: Routledge), pp. 320-3.
2014: ‘The legacy of classical cosmology in the Renaissance: William Shakespeare and astronomy’, Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, Vol 14, no 3, pp. 331-9. eds., Kim Malville, Xenophon Moussas and Michael Rappenglück. ISSN (Online): 2241-8121
2014: ‘Astronomy and the State: time, space, power and the foundation of Baghdad’, in Michael Rappenglűck, Barbara Rappenglück and Nicholas Campion (eds.) Astronomy and Power (Cambridge: British Archaeology Reports), pp. 233-9.
2013: ‘The 2012 Phenomenon in Context: Millenarianism, New Age and Cultural Astronomy’, in Ivan Šprac and Peter Pehani (eds.), Ancient Cosmologies and Modern Prophets, (Lubljana: Anthropological Notebooks year XIX, supplement, 2013), pp. 15-31.
2011: ‘Masters Level Education in Archaeoastronomy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’ (with J. McKim Malville), in Clive Ruggles (ed.), Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges Between Cultures, Proceedings of International Astro
2011: ‘Was there an Egyptian Revolution in Ptolemaic Astronomy?: Stars, Soul and ’, Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 13, (2011), pp. 4174-86.
2011: ‘Astronomy and the Soul’, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Atilla Grandpierre (eds.), Astronomy and Civilisation in the New Enlightenment, Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Vol. CVII, (Heidelberg: Springer, 2011), pp. 24
2010: ‘A Review of Academic Literature on Astrology: 1. The Ancient World’, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Vol. 1 no. 2 (2010).
2009: ‘L’Etat cosmique: astronomie at théory politique’, Planétariums, L’Associations des Planétariums de langue française, May 2009, pp. 33-4. 2008: (with Jarita Holbrook), ‘Cultural Astronomy: A Conversation about Degree Programs & Research Questions
A fuller list of my media work is on my website https://nicholascampion.org/
Nicholas Campion, ‘The Spotlight Network on The New Age in the Modern West’, interview with Logan Crawford, 1 August 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gUJoWsSdI
Nicholas Campion, ‘A Spatial Dimension of Heaven’, interview with Paul Gillingwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao_EVxO13pg
Nicholas Campion, ‘The Modern Revival of Astrology’, The Astrology Podcast, 29 June 2017. https://theastrologypodcast.com/2017/06/29/modern-revival-of-astrology-with-nick-campion/
Nicholas Campion, ‘History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy’, Ad Astra, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzvaHB1GwQ
Patrick Curry and Nicholas Campion, ‘Prophecy and Power, with Patrick Curry and Nicholas Campion’, The Astrology Podcast, 7 May 2024. https://theastrologypodcast.com/2024/05/07/prophecy-and-power-with-patrick-curry-and-nicholas-campion/

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