Discurso, espacio y poder en las religions antiguas

Edited by Rafael A. Barroso-Romero, José Ángel Castillo Lozano

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14 papers 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. Studies consider evidence from epigraphy, the archaeological record, and literary sources.

Discurso, 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.

en español

Discurso, espacio y poder en las religiones antiguas pretende reflexionar acerca de c??mo el poder da forma a los discursos que lo justifican en el marco de una sociedad o de un grupo concreto y c??mo el espacio participa de aquellos. Intelectuales, arist??cratas, hombres santos o incluso los difuntos, todos ellos necesitaron configurar un discurso que permitiera justificar sus jerarqu??as ???ya fueran internas o comunes a toda la sociedad??? consensuarlas socialmente y sustentarlas en el tiempo. Las formas en las que el poder utilizaba a la religi??n para expresarse fueron muy diversas, como la violencia ritual, el martirio, el sacrificio, o incluso el enga??o divino. A veces, determinados espacios se convirtieron en lugares cuyo control pol??tico y religioso generaba conflictos, cuya soluci??n se encontr?? en la legitimaci??n generada por el complejo discurso teol??gico, que refuerza las cualidades extraordinarias de los dioses para reafirmar su autoridad, o por el valor cohesivo de los ritos. Este volumen analiza tales cuestiones a trav??s de catorce trabajos de diecis??is investigadores procedentes de diversos centros. Recoge investigaciones realizadas con materiales de muy diversa procedencia: la epigraf??a, el registro arqueol??gico o las fuentes literarias.

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About the Author
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Pr??logo ??? RAM??N SONEIRA MART??NEZ ;

Aspectos te??ricos ;
Teorizando la religi??n y el poder en el mundo antiguo: del discurso al espacio. Nociones introductorias ??? RAFAEL A. BARROSO-ROMERO & JOS?? A. CASTILLO-LOZANO ;
Senses in/of religious violence: identity, difference, privilege, and power ??? FRANCISCO D??EZ DE VELASCO ;
Discursos sociorreligiosos en la configuraci??n del poder ;
La influencia del per??odo amarniense en la religi??n egipcia ??? IRIA SOUTO CASTRO ;
La ??ltima cabalgada: imaginarios del tr??nsito psicopompo ib??rico ??? JORGE GARC??A CARDIEL ;
An??lisis del Himno Hom??rico a Hermes: su faceta y evoluci??n como trickster ??? ANA CANALEJO PALAZ??N ;
Teolog??a negativa en el pensamiento presocr??tico ??? ALBERTO BERNAB?? PAJARES ;
??Fue Pit??goras un cham??n? ??? MAR??A DEL PILAR GARC??A ARROYO ;
El Satiric??n 131: un rito m??gico contra la impotencia sexual ??? DIEGO MESEGUER GONZ??LEZ ;
Cicero and Augustine: a comparative pedagogy of rhetoric ??? GUILLERMO IZNAOLA RODR??GUEZ ;
El camino hacia la divinidad: la muerte de Alejandro Magno ??? SERGIO L??PEZ CALERO ;
Deshacer el cuerpo, deshacer la autoridad: corporeidad y resistencia pol??tica en el martirio de Policarpo ??? AITOR BOADA BENITO ;

Apropiaci??n religiosa del espacio y proyecci??n del poder ;
Aspectos de las pr??cticas religiosas en Tarteso: el sacrificio de animales en santuarios ??? JOS?? LUIS RAMOS SOLDADO & EDUARDO FERRER ALBELDA ;
Barrios romanos y religi??n material ??? J??RG R??PKE ;
El cristianismo primitivo y su idea de la naturaleza ??? JOS?? ANTONIO MOLINA G??MEZ

About the Author

Rafael A. Barroso-Romero is a doctoral researcher at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universit??t Erf??rt and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he lectures as a member of the Department of Ancient History. He is currently developing his doctoral research on materiality, spatiality, and the body in unusual burials in the Roman West. ;

Jos?? ??ngel Castillo Lozano completed his Doctorate in History at the Universidad de Murcia. He is currently a High School teacher. His area of specialisation lies in the world of Late Antiquity, on which he has published around fifteen papers.

en español

Rafael A. Barroso-Romero es Graduado en Historia (UCO) y M??ster en Ciencias de las Religiones (UCM). Actualmente es investigador predoctoral en el Max-Weber-Kolleg (IGS ???Resonant Self- World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices???) de la Universit??t Erf??rt y al mismo tiempo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde imparte docencia como miembro del Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueolog??a. ;

Jos?? A. Castillo-Lozano (1991) es graduado en Historia en la Universidad de Murcia. En la actualidad es profesor de secundaria (funcionario de carrera) y doctor en historia. Su ??mbito de especializaci??n radica en el mundo de la Antig??edad Tard??a del cual ha publicado una quincena de art??culos, adem??s, de publicar recientemente una monograf??a sobre la figura del tirano en la tradici??n literaria cat??lica del reino visigodo de Toledo.

Reviews

'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 Borb??n (2022): REVISTA ARYS

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Publishing Scholarly Archaeology since 1997

Discurso, espacio y poder en las religions antiguas

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About the Author

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