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Patrick Curry

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I hold a B.A. (University of California at Santa Cruz, 1978, in Psychology, with highest honours), M.Sc. (L.S.E., 1980, in Logic and Scientific Method), and Ph.D. (University College London, 1987, in the History and Philosophy of Science).

Since September 2006 I have been a Lecturer (0.5) in Religious Studies at the University of Kent (Canterbury), where I teach in the MA programme on the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination. From 2002-06 I was a Lecturer (0.5) at the Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University College, where I co-taught the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astronomy.

I have reviewed books for History Today, New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent and (most often) the Times Literary Supplement; appeared on two television prog...more

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Books by Patrick Curry

Average rating: 3.60 · 296 ratings · 34 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Introducing Machiavelli (Introducing... by Patrick Curry, Oscar Zarate (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Introducing Machiavelli by Patrick Curry, Oscar Zárate (Illustrator), Oscar Zarate (Illustrations) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Ecological Ethics: An Introduction 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ecological Ethics 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Defending Middle Earth: Tolkien, Myth And Modernity 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Divination: Perspectives for a New Millenium 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Astrology And The Academy: Papers From The Inaugural Conference At Bath Spa by Patrick Curry, Nicholas Campion, Michael York (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Astrology, Science, And Society: Historical Essays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”
― Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

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