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Hi,
The MA programme in Cosmology
and Divination at Kent stopped recruiting in the year 2008-9 and closed in June
2010 – it didn’t recruit enough, so was closed on financial
grounds.
Can I point out the work we are
doing at the University of Lampeter in this field in the MA in Cultural
Astronomy and Astrology? See www.lamp.ac.uk/sophia
We are pioneering new ways of
dealing with this subject area and we are on track to have between 60 and 70 MA
students in January 2011. We have 6 research students.
The most recent module to be
launched is ‘Cosmology, Magic and Divination in the Classical
World’, taught by myself and Dr Crystal Addey. Other modules of interest
include ‘Stellar Religion’ and ‘New Age and Pagan
Cosmologies’.
Our approaches are
anthropological, sociological – and a little philosophical. We have
plenty of practitioners as students, as well as non-practitioners, and we
encourage the development of a reflexive approach to academic studies, in
keeping with current anthropological theory.
All the best,
Nick Campion
Dr Nicholas Campion
Sophia Centre for the Study of
Cosmology in Culture,
School of Archaeology, History
and Archaeology,
University of Wales, Lampeter.