Discurso, espacio y poder en las religions antiguas

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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. Table of Contents Prólogo – 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