Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Rafael A. Barroso-Romero ,
José Ángel Castillo Lozano
Publisher: Archaeopress
Imprint: Archaeopress
Weight: 0.707kg
ISBN: 9781789698848
ISBN 10: 1789698847
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 04 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Language: Spanish
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 Borbon (2022): REVISTA ARYS
Author Information
Rafael A. Barroso-Romero es Graduado en Historia (UCO) y Máster 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 Universität Erfürt y al mismo tiempo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde imparte docencia como miembro del Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología. ; José 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 ámbito de especialización radica en el mundo de la Antigüedad Tardía del cual ha publicado una quincena de artículos, además, de publicar recientemente una monografía sobre la figura del tirano en la tradición literaria católica del reino visigodo de Toledo.
