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Book SynopsisDiscurso, espacio y poder en las religiones antiguas aims to reflect on how the wielders of power, be they religious, social or political, shape the discourses that justify their power within the framework of a society or a specific group, and how space participates in these discourses. Intellectuals, aristocrats, holy men or even the dead all needed to shape a discourse that would allow them to justify their hierarchies, whether they were internal or common to all of society, to reach a social consensus and to sustain them over time. The forms in which power used religion to express itself were quite diverse, such as ritual violence, martyrdom, sacrifice, or even divine trickery. Sometimes certain spaces became places whose political and religious control brought about conflicts, whose resolution was found through the legitimisation generated by the complex theological discourse, which reinforced the extraordinary qualities of the gods to reaffirm their authority, or through the cohesive value of the rites. This volume analyses these questions through fourteen works by sixteen researchers from different institutions. It includes studies carried out with materials from a wide range of sources: epigraphy, the archaeological record, and literary sources.
Trade Review'This miscellany of studies has been enriched by his approach multidisciplinary because the contributions have been focused from a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as the History of Religions, Philology, History and Archaeology. Likewise, there is no doubt that we are dealing with a collection of innovative tests of great scientific value for scholars of societies as a whole, and that in Spanish-speaking historiography comes to fill a historiographic gap on the conceptual trinomial discourse-space-power. The different contributions, covering a wide chronology and cultural contexts diverse, facilitate the understanding of the realities and beliefs so polyhedral that they underlie the articulation of past religions. In short, from all that has been said previously it is inferred that it is a work of great quality, aspect that guarantees per se its publication in the academic publisher Archaeopress.' – Paula Arbeloa Borbón (2022): REVISTA ARYS
Table of ContentsPrólogo –
RAMÓN SONEIRA MARTÍNEZ ;
Aspectos teóricos ;
Teorizando la religión y el poder en el mundo antiguo: del discurso al espacio. Nociones introductorias –
RAFAEL A. BARROSO-ROMERO & JOSÉ A. CASTILLO-LOZANO ;
Senses in/of religious violence: identity, difference, privilege, and power –
FRANCISCO DÍEZ DE VELASCO ;
Discursos sociorreligiosos en la configuración del poder ;
La influencia del período amarniense en la religión egipcia –
IRIA SOUTO CASTRO ;
La última cabalgada: imaginarios del tránsito psicopompo ibérico –
JORGE GARCÍA CARDIEL ;
Análisis del
Himno Homérico a Hermes: su faceta y evolución como
trickster –
ANA CANALEJO PALAZÓN ;
Teología negativa en el pensamiento presocrático –
ALBERTO BERNABÉ PAJARES ;
¿Fue Pitágoras un chamán? –
MARÍA DEL PILAR GARCÍA ARROYO ;
El Satiricón 131: un rito mágico contra la impotencia sexual –
DIEGO MESEGUER GONZÁLEZ ;
Cicero and Augustine: a comparative pedagogy of rhetoric –
GUILLERMO IZNAOLA RODRÍGUEZ ;
El camino hacia la divinidad: la muerte de Alejandro Magno –
SERGIO LÓPEZ CALERO ;
Deshacer el cuerpo, deshacer la autoridad: corporeidad y resistencia política en el martirio de Policarpo –
AITOR BOADA BENITO ;
Apropiación religiosa del espacio y proyección del poder ;
Aspectos de las prácticas religiosas en Tarteso: el sacrificio de animales en santuarios –
JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS SOLDADO & EDUARDO FERRER ALBELDA ;
Barrios romanos y religión material –
JÖRG RÜPKE ;
El cristianismo primitivo y su idea de la naturaleza –
JOSÉ ANTONIO MOLINA GÓMEZ
