Book Chapters, Papers and Articles

2025 Nicholas Campion, ‘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).

2024 ‘Countering the threat of space pollution: awareness raising via sustainability narratives’, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

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 Astronomical Phenomena (INSAPXII), Ionian University, Corfu, May 20th-24th, 2024).

2024 ‘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 Conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), Timosoara, September 5-9 2022 ?????

2024 ‘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
‘, (Kielce: Jan Kochanowski University Press, 2024).

2024 ‘The Universe and Human Destiny’ in The Cultural History of the Universe, Vol 5, James Evans (ed.) (London: Bloomsbury), forthcoming,

2024 ‘The Universe and Human Destiny’ in The Cultural History of the Universe, Vol 6, Jarita Holbrook (ed.) (London: Bloomsbury), forthcoming,

2024 ‘Religious Time’ in the Cultural History of Religion, Vol 4, The Enlightenment, ed. Brett McInelly (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).

2024 ‘Religious Time’ in the Cultural History of Religion, Vol 6, The Modern Age., ed. Marion Bowman (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).

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 (Plovdiv: Totem Studio, 2023).

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).
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.178
https://www.academia.edu/125496520/Planets_in_Medieval_Alchemy_and_Astrology_Medieval_and_Renaissance_

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 culture (Hamburg: Tredition, 2021), pp. 284-8.

2020 ‘Cultural Astronomy: Material Culture, Astronomy, Astrology and Power, Oxford: British Archaeology Reports (forthcoming).

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 Akopyan (London: Routledge, Society for Renaissance Studies series).

On Academia.edu

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.
https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-46

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,
http://maajournal.com/Issues/2018/Vol18-4/32_Campion%2018(4).pdf

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, https://revistas.uam.es/librosdelacorte/article/view/9624/9776

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.
https://www.intechopen.com/books/trends-in-modern-cosmology/the-importance-of-cosmology-in-culture-contexts-and-consequences
https://www.intechopen.com/books/trends-in-modern-cosmology

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 and Present Cultures, Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, Vol.16 no 4 2016), pp. 497-502
https://aegean.academia.edu/MediterraneanArchaeologyandArchaeometryMAA/Volume-16—Issue-4-(special)

https://www.maajournal.com/index.php/maa/article/view/958

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.
https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JASR/article/view/26624

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 Pacific 2015), pp. 97-102

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.
https://www.academia.edu/s/e6c95d3643?source=link
http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/vocabulary-study-religion-3-vols

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 (Oxford: British Archaeology Reports, May 2015), pp. 84-9.
ISBN 978-1-4073-1441-9
http://www.barpublishing.com/seac-2011-stars-and-stones-voyages-in-archaeastronomy-and-cultural-astronomy.html

2014 Campion, Nicholas, ‘Astrology as Cultural Astronomy’, Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (ed. Clive Ruggles) (Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2014), pp. 103-116.
http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781461461401
ISBN 978-1-4614-6140-1

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
http://maajournal.com/Issues/2014/Vol14-3/Full30.pdf

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.
https://www.academia.edu/106250061/ASTRONOMY_AND_THE_STATE_TIME_SPACE_AND_POWER_IN_THE_FOUNDATION_OF_BAGHDAD

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.
https://www.academia.edu/28392367/%C5%A0prajc_Ivan_and_Peter_Pehani_eds._2013._Ancient_cosmologies_and_modern_prophets_Proceedings_of_the_20th_Conference_of_the_European_Society_for_Astronomy_in_Culture._Anthropological_Notebooks_XIX_supplement_Ljubljana_Slovene_Anthropological_Society

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 Astronomy Union Symposium 278, (the 9th “Oxford” International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy), Lima, Peru, 4-14 January 2011, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 357-63.

2011 ‘Was there an Egyptian Revolution in Ptolemaic Astronomy?: Stars, Soul and ’, Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 13, (2011), pp. 4174-86.
http://journalofcosmology.com/AncientAstronomy125.html

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. 249-257.

Academia.edu

2010 ‘Astronomy and Psyche in the Classical World: Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Ptolemy’, Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 9 (2010), pp. 2179-86.
https://www.academia.edu/124936492/Astronomy_and_Psyche_in_the_Classical_World_Plato_Aristotle_Zeno_Ptolemy

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 from Both Sides of the Pond’, Spark: The American Astronomical Society Education Newsletter, pp. 9-11.

Encyclopaedia Articles and Chapters in Books

2020 ‘The Imaginal Sky in the Medieval World’ in Eric Lacey (ed.), Starcræft. Watching the Heavens in the Middle Ages, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

2016 ‘Preface: Wellbeing and Dark Skies, in Ada Blair, Sark in the Dark: Wellbeing and Community of the Dark Sky Island of Sark (Lampeter: Sophia centre Press, 2016), p. xvii-xxvii.

2016 ‘Introduction: Discoursing with the Heavens’ in Nicholas Campion (ed.), Heavenly Discourses, (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2016), pp. xiv-xxviii 

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.

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 ‘Astrology’, Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Religions, in Nina P. Azari (ed), Springer Dordrecht.

2013 ‘Augustine and Astronomy’ in Kim Pafenroth (ed.), Augustine and Science, Augustine in Conversation, Tradition and Innovation, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), pp. 83-97.

2012 ‘More on the Transmission of the Babylonian Zodiac to Greece’, ARAM Periodical, Vol. 24 no 2, pp. 193-201.

2012 ‘Aquinas, Thomas’, ‘Augustine’, ‘Cicero’, ‘Kiddinu’, ‘Naburiannu’, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, (New York: Springer), p. 53.

http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astronomy%2C+observations+and+techniques/book/978-1-4419-9916-0?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=AUT23176_1&utm_source=email&wt_mc=email.newsletter.1.AUT23176.internal_1&cm_mmc=sgw-_-ps-_-book-_-978-1-4419-9916-0

2011 ‘Enchantment and the Awe of the Heavens’, in Enrico Maria Corsini (ed.), The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Vol. 441, (2011), pp. 415-22.
https://www.academia.edu/125284848/Enchantment_and_the_Awe_of_the_Heavens

2011 ‘The 2012 Mayan Calendar Prophecies in the Context of the Western Millenarian Tradition’, in Clive Ruggles (ed.), Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges Between Cultures, Proceedings of International Astronomy Union Symposium 278, (the 9th “Oxford” International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy), Lima, Peru, 4-14 January 2011, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 249-54.

2011 ‘Astronomy and Political Theory’, in David Valls-Gabaud and Alec Boksenberg (eds.), The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture, International Astronomical Union Symposium 260, UNESCO, Paris, 19-23 January 2008, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 595-602.

2010 ‘Astrology’, in Nina P. Azari (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Religions, (Dordrecht: Springer).

2009 ‘The Antikythera Mechanism: An Archaeoastronomical Artefact in its Literary and Religious Context’, in José Alberto Rubiño-Martín, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Francisco Prada and Anxton Alberdi, (eds.), Cosmologies Across Cultures, (Provo, Utah: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), pp. 160-5.

2008 Apart: Analysing Print Journalism, (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 253-61.

2008 ‘Teaching Cultural Astronomy: On the Development and Evolution of the Syllabus at Bath Spa University and the University of Wales, Lampeter’, in Jarita Holbrook, Rodney Medupe and Johnson Urama (eds.), African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaoeastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa, (Amsterdam: Springer Verlag, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 2008), pp. 109-119.

2007 ‘Babylonian Astrology’, Encyclopaedia of Non-Western Science: Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, (Berlin: Springer Verlag).

2007 ‘Astrology’ in The Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, eds. Denise Cush, Cahterine Robinson and Lynn Foulston, (London: Routledge).

2007 ‘\, Thomas’, ‘Augustine’, ‘Cicero’, ‘Kiddinu’, ‘Naburiannu’, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers, ed.Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams,(New York: Springer), Vol. 1, pp. 53, 69-70, 235-6, 633, Vol. 2, p. 819.

2006 ‘Astrology’ in Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft: the Western Tradition, ed. Richard Golden, San Diego: ABC.CLIO, Vol. 1, pp. 64-5.

2005 ‘The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century BCE: a discussion of historical sources’, in H. K. von Stuckrad, G. Oestmann and D. Rutkin (eds.), Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology, (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter,2005), pp. 69-92.

2005 ””Thousand is a perfect number…” quoth Aelfric of Cerne: Millenarianism and the foundation of Sherbourne Abbey’, Proceedings of the conference to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of Sherbourne Abbey, Bournemouth University, School of Conservaton Sciences, Occasional Paper 8, Katherine Barker, David A. Hinton and Alan Hunt, (eds.), (Bournemouth: Oxbow Books), pp. 33-39.
ISBN 1-84217-175-5

2005 ‘The Sun is God’ in Nicholas Campion (ed.), The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Magdalen College, Oxford, 3-9 August 2003 (Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 8 no 1), pp. 45-56.
http://www.cultureandcosmos.org/pdfs/8/Vol_8_Campion_Sun_is_God.pdf

2004 ‘Introduction: Cultural Astronomy’, in Campion, Nicholas, Patrick Curry and Michael York (eds.) Astrology and the Academy, papers from the inaugural conference of the Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University College, 13-14 June 2003, (Bristol: Cinnabar Books, 2004), pp. xv-xxx.

2003‘The Traditional Revival in Modern Astrology: a Preliminary History’, Astrology Quarterly, Vol. 74 no 1, (Winter 2003), pp. 28-38.

2003 ‘Mundane Astrology’, in James R. Lewis, (ed.), The Astrology Book: The Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Influences, (Detroit: Visible Ink Press).

2002 ‘Do Astrologers Have to Believe in Astrology?’ The Sceptic, Vol. 15 no 2, (Summer 2002), pp. 20-22.

2002 ‘Political Cosmology in the Renaissance: Bodin, Kepler and the Reform of Astrology’, Proceedings of the INSAP II Conference, Arizona University, Steward University.

2002 ‘From Stonehenge to Seattle: Eco-Protest, Archaeoastronomy and New Age Cosmology’, in Proceedings of the INSAP III Conference, Memoire della Societa Astronomica Italiana, Special number 1 (2002), pp. 202-5.
https://www.academia.edu/125343618/FROM_STONEHENGE_TO_SEATTLE_ECO_PROTEST_ARCHAEOASTRONOMY_AND_NEW_AGE_COSMOLOGY

2000 ‘Babylonian Astrology: Its Origins and Legacy in Europe’ in Helaine Selin (ed.), Astronomy Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Astronomy, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

2000 ‘The Milky Way Dreaming (Aboriginal Art of the Stars)’, Review Essay, Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 4 no 1, (Spring/Summer 2000), pp. 54-62.

2000 ‘The Age of Aquarius: a Modern Constellation Myth’, in Cesar Esteban and Juan Antonio Belmonte (eds.), Astronomy and Cultural Diversity, proceedings of the 1999 Oxford VI and SEAC Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture, Tenerife, 2000.

2000 ‘The Beginning of the Age of Aquarius’, Correlation, Vol. 19 no 1, (Summer 2000), pp. 7-16.

1998 ‘Astrology’, Encarta Encyclopaedia, CD Rom and web: msn.encarta.com

1998 ‘Sigmund Freud’s Investigation of Astrology’, Culture and Cosmos, vol. 2 no 1 (Spring/Summer 1998), pp. 49-52, repub. The Skeptical Intelligencer, Vol. 3, no 4, (April 2001), pp. 6-9.

1998 ‘Walter Old and the Fin de Siècle’, foreword to The Astral Tramp: A Biography of Sepharial, Kim Farnell, (London: Ascella Press, 1998), pp. vii-xii.

1998 ‘Analysing the Apocalypse’, Oxymoron, Annual Anthology of the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 2, pp. 42-48.

1997 ‘On God and Dice: Chance, determinism and the Berlin Wall’, Oxymoron, Annual Anthology of the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 1, pp.166-75.

1997 Campion. Nicholas, ‘Ediitorial’, Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 1 No. 1 ,  Spring/Summer 1997, pp. 1-2, https://www.cultureandcosmos.org/issues/vol1.php

1993  ‘Dorotheus of Sidon: His life and significance’, foreword to Carmen Astrologicum, Dorotheus of Sidon, trans. David Pingree, (Nottingham: Ascella Publications).

1992 ‘Alan Leo: Pére de L’Astrologie Anglaise du XX Siecle’ in Patrick Curry, Nicholas Campion, and Jacques Halbronn, La Vie Astrologique Il Y A Cent Ans, (Paris: Edition Guy Trédaniel 1992), pp. 15-29.

2003 ‘Towards An Integral Astrology’, foreword in Doing Time on Planet Earth, Adrian Duncan, Shaftsbury: Element Books.

1989 ‘The Concept of Destiny in Islamic Thought and its Impact on Medieval European Thought’, ARAM Periodical, Vol. 1 no 2, (summer 1989), pp. 281-89.

1989 ‘Astrological Historiography in the Renaissance: The Work of Jean Bodin and Louis Le Roy’, in History and Astrology: Clio and Urania Confer, ed., Annabella Kitson, (London: Unwin Hyman).

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