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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't miss this! 🏛️📚 This Wednesday, Ramón Soneira-Martínez will present his new book: "Relational Atheism: Studying Unbelief in Ancient Greece" (Kohlhammer, 2026). Join the online session! 👇

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The #HierotopoiProject on tour! 🏛️✨ This past Wednesday, Dr. Ramón Soneira-Martínez presented our project at the conference 'Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices: A Quintessence'. Fantastic discussions and knowledge exchange with the academic community! 👇📸

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ISHASH @ishash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us next Wednesday (7 October) for what’s sure to be a fascinating talk by @rsoneira.bsky.social on ‘Relational Atheism: Studying Unbelief in Ancient Greece’. All welcome, please share widely! Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Blue event poster for ISHASH Webinar: Dr Ramón Soneira-Martínez, 7 October 2026, 10.00 PT, 13.00 ET, 18.00 BST, 19.00 CET. Relational Atheism: Studying Unbelief in Ancient Greece. Email ishashmail@gmail.com to register

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new chapter of the #HierotopoiLibrary is out! 📚✨ Today we dive into Roman territorial expansion with Tesse D. Stek’s "Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy" (2009). Did Rome use religion to conquer the landscape? 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our first academic event in @hierotopoi.bsky.social is now online! Check our YouTube channel and watch the full lecture there:

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you so much Diego! It was wonderful to hear you and to discover the history of such a fascinating place. Check our YouTube channel soon to watch the lecture! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chapter 10 of the #HierotopoiLibrary is here! 📚✨ Today we dive into methodology with "Unlocking sacred landscapes: spatial analysis of ritual and cult in the Mediterranean" (Papantoniou et al., 2019). How do we scientifically map ancient religion? 🧵👇

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At the ÖAI, we use sensory archaeology to better understand the #Hierotopoi. A sacred space wasn't just built; it was felt, heard, and experienced. 🏛️ #HierotopoiProject #SensoryArchaeology #LandscapeArchaeology #Classics

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hamilakis challenges archaeology's "visual bias." Ancient religion was a fully embodied experience. The smell of incense, the acoustics of a cave, and the physical effort of a pilgrimage were essential for creating deep emotional responses and collective memories. 🌿🔥

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Chapter 8 of the #HierotopoiLibrary is here! 📚✨ Today we move beyond just "looking" at ruins and dive into the sensory world of antiquity with Yannis Hamilakis’ "Archaeology and the Senses" (2013). What did a sacred landscape sound and smell like? 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We are launching the first guest lecture of the HIEROTOPOI Lecture Series!! We are very excited about beginning the series with this marvellous scholar and his fascinating research on Dion. Do not miss it!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chapter 7 of the #HierotopoiLibrary is here, just in time for the August heat! 📚💧 Today we dive into the sacred waters of antiquity with Celeste Ray’s "Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells" (2020). Why was water so central to sacred spaces? 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So excited about this! An excellent opportunity to present and discuss the ideas behind 'Relational Atheism' with @ishash.bsky.social All the details about the online webinar here 👇:

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🏛️ A secret women's sanctuary 200m underground? At Cova de les Dones (Valencia), archaeologists discovered a Roman temple with 120 female inscriptions dedicated to a forgotten goddess: Malaci, the Lady. @oeai.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social Let's explore this underground sacred space! 🧵👇

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎉 Celebrating a major publication! Two of our HIEROTOPOI team members, María Cruz Cardete del Olmo (Co-editor/Author) & David Sierra Rodríguez (Author), have contributed to the newly released 'Pobreza, marginación y exclusión en la Antigüedad clásica'. 🏛️📖

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This finding was truly fascinating. A possible cult of Odysseus in Ithaca during the Hellenistic period? 🤔 👇👇

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🎬 Did Nolan’s new film leave you wanting more of the Odyssey? Homer’s epic functioned as a map to real sacred spaces. Let's explore the physical locations where ancient societies actually worshipped Odysseus. 🧵👇 @oeai.bsky.social #Hierotopoi #Archaeology #TheOdyssey #Nolan

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New on the #HierotopoiProject blog! 📝 "The Topographic Writing of Women’s Lives into the Sacred Landscape of the Argolid" How did the ancient polis regulate women's bodies through the natural environment? Let's dive in. 🧵👇 hierotopoi.hcommons.org/archives/448

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

At the ÖAI, the #HierotopoiProject studies how ancient societies sacralised their landscapes. We believe fostering a dialogue between ancient environmental thought and modern ecological challenges is vital for our future. 🏛️✨ Watch the full video here ⬇️⬇️⬇️: youtu.be/csYD4LyRPCs?...

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Religare: Espiritualidad y religión en el siglo XXI

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

To be honest, it was incredible to take part as a moderator at this symposium alongside such prominent and inspiring scholars and thinkers. Take a look at the entire symposium on the Instituto Cervantes' YouTube Channel. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Time for Chapter 5 of the #HierotopoiLibrary! 📚✨ Today we dive into one of the most influential books in religious studies: Jonathan Z. Smith’s "To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual" (1987). What actually makes a space sacred? 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

More about the brilliant team we have in @hierotopoi.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Check out my new post in @hierotopoi.bsky.social connecting Plutarch with Homer, Socrates, and the Hebrew Bible ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The #HierotopoiLibrary continues! 📚✨ Today, we add a crucial social dimension to our study of sacred spaces with Susan Guettel Cole’s "Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space" (2004). Did gender dictate how ancient communities interacted with nature? 🧵👇

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Time for chapter two of the #HierotopoiLibrary! 📚✨ Today we move from architecture to human experience with a monumental text: Christopher Tilley’s "A Phenomenology of Landscape" (1994). How do we experience sacred space? 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Here some reflections on religion, philosophy and natural landscapes in Ancient Greece. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Let’s meet the researchers behind the #HierotopoiProject! 👋 We are starting with our Project Leader at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Dr Ramón Soneira-Martínez. Ramón specializes in the Ancient History of Religions and the theoretical frameworks for studying relationally ancient unbelief 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Here there are more details of the event: bsky.app/profile/rson...

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A little glimpse of last week's event at the @institutocervantes.bsky.social in Berlin. Fascinating discussions on spirituality and religion in the 21st century. Thanks to the incredible panel! #Religare #ReligiousStudies

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

For our team at the @oeai.bsky.social, Scully's approach is essential. A sanctuary is a dialogue between human architecture and organic nature. In that way, topography becomes readable and meaningful. 🌿

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Before Scully, temples were studied as isolated art objects. Scully radically shifted the paradigm: he argued that temples were built to interact with the sacred landscape of the earth. The place itself was the original monument. ⛰️🏛️

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HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The #HierotopoiLibrary is officially open! 📚✨ Every fortnight, we share the theoretical foundations of the #HierotopoiProject. Today we start with the cornerstone of sacred landscape studies: Vincent Scully’s "The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods" (1962). 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📍 In-person (Berlin) & Online (YouTube streaming). 🗣️ Simultaneous translation Spa-Ger. All info and registration here: shorturl.at/AdfDo

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Religare: Spiritualität und Religion im 21. Jahrhundert

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Wonderful news! I will moderate "RELIGARE: Spirituality and Religion in the 21st Century" on May 6th at the @institutocervantes.bsky.social in Berlin, alongside Paco Bernal. We will be in dialogue with amazing scholars in a stellar panel. Check it out! 👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Did ancient Athens treat foreign ideas like a disease? 🦠🏛️ I'm thrilled to present my paper, "Sophistic 'Epidemics': Itinerant Sages and Their Reception in Classical Athens," at MAGOS Conference. Check out the full program below! 👇📜 #ClassicsSky #AncientHistory #GreekPhilosophy

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is not just a local issue. We are fighting to keep the academic study of religions alive, public, and secular. We need international visibility. Please share and support the Spanish scholars and students fighting for their field! 📢🇪🇸 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter. www.larazon.es/opinion/que-...

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Por qué estudiar Ciencias de las Religiones

Es fundamental conocer la religión para entender, como es obvio, la literatura, la historia y las artes, pero también el derecho y la sociología, entre otras cosas

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

University management is targeting "low demand" programs to fix a multi-million deficit. But in an era of globalization, migration, and religiously-coded geopolitical conflicts, cutting experts in intercultural mediation and religious literacy is intellectual suicide. 🌍❌ aarweb.org/news/the-aca...

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The Academic Study of Religion Is Crucial to Higher Education - AAR

A Statement by the AAR Board of Directors Approved by the AAR Board of Directors on December 16, 2020 Religious studies departments are on the chopping block as institutions of higher education look for solutions to the symptoms caused by financial uncertainty from the pandemic and several years of budget…

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For decades, the academic, secular study of religion in Spain was monopolized by confessional theology. Having a secular, scientific degree in Religious Studies at UCM was a historic achievement to align Spain with the rest of Europe. Now, neoliberal university policies might kill it. 📉🏛️

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

For Fuchs, Fantastic Realism wasn't merely an artistic movement; it was a mystical practice. He believed art needed a "cult." He created an aesthetic theology where the subconscious, the sacred, and the mythological become one reality. 👁️📖

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The exterior of the museum is just as theological. Take the "Nymphaeum Omega" in the garden. Here, Fuchs practices visual syncretism: combining the classical pagan water shrine (Nymphaeum) with the apocalyptic Christian symbol (Omega), using water as the ultimate symbol of spiritual rebirth. 💧🌿

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Look closely at his iconography. Fuchs doesn’t just illustrate religious scenes; he paints visionary, ecstatic states. Using the meticulous techniques of Renaissance masters, he depicts apocalyptic visions, cherubim, and the complex union of divine ecstasy and human flesh.

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Fuchs’s religious background deeply shaped his vision. Born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, he survived WWII and later converted to Catholicism. His canvas became a theological laboratory, seamlessly blending Old Testament narratives with esoteric and alchemical traditions. 🕎✝️✨

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As a historian of religions, walking into the Ernst Fuchs Museum in Vienna isn't just an art tour—it’s entering a modern syncretic sanctuary. 🏛️👁️ Let’s explore how the co-founder of Fantastic Realism merged Christian mysticism, Kabbalah, and esoteric myth into his art. A thread 🧵👇

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Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📥 The table of contents and the Introduction are available to consult and download for free. All the information can be found here: shop.kohlhammer.de/relational-a...

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Relational Atheism

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