Eliseo Ferrer, Author.
An atheist (“essential”) expert in anthropology of sacred and with a particular critical theory about the Christian cultural construct.
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Eliseo Ferrer is an author, anthropologist, mythologist, and scholar specializing in the philosophy of culture, originally from Ontiñena, Huesca (European Union). He pursued studies in Information Sciences and Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Academically trained in Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism
and in the Materialism of Cultural Anthropology, which was
introduced in Spain in the late 20th century by Jesús Muga
Sánchez, he soon moved away from the Marxism of his youth
and his early Ortega-inspired leanings.
However, from the early years of this century, Eliseo Ferrer
became captivated and deeply influenced by the important work
of the Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno. Since then,
Bueno’s philosophy has shaped Ferrer’s research in the fields
of mythology, the foundations of Christianity, and the search for
the anthropological origins of the religious phenomenon. This is evidenced in the preface of his 2023 book: Human Sacrifices,
Cannibalism, and Ritual Sexuality in the Ancient World.
In brief, Gustavo Bueno opened the doors to the system of
Philosophical Materialism, where Ferrer found solutions to
many problems that had remained unsolvable within his previous
frameworks—based on Ortega’s Ratio-Vitalism, Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism, and the
materialist principles of Cultural Anthropology.
He has published several books, among them, Sacrifice and Drama of the Sacred King (Genealogy, Anthropology, and History of the Myth
of Christ) (2021), in which he proposes an original theory of
Christianity that is anthropological, textual, and historical-critical in nature. This is developed from the postulates of
essentialist atheism and through a methodology based on criteria of gnoseological materiality and critical holism.
As its central theme, the book explores—through a procedural and dialectical approach—the myth of the death and resurrection of divinity, tracing it from Neolithic cults to the ecclesiastical imagery of the crucifixion at Golgotha.
Based on the same methods, in 2023 he published Human Sacrifices, Cannibalism and Ritual Sexuality in the Ancient World (Elements for a materialist theory of the construction of the sacred).
On the other hand, the vision of Christianity proposed in Sacrifice
and Drama of the Sacred King was developed from another perspective in his late 2024 book, The Christian Myth,
According to the Texts (Texts and Ideological Contexts of Early Christianity), where he offered an analytical interpretation of the myth of the
divine incarnation in the human soul—rooted in Orphic-Platonic and Greek traditions. Over this foundation, during the
first century, were superimposed the myth of the eschatological
presence on Earth of the judge-savior (of Hellenistic character and Persian origin) and the myth of the
death and resurrection of the divinity (also of Hellenistic character but archaic origin).
And finally, in October 2025, the e-book Elements for a Materialist Theory of the Construction of the Sacred appeared: the digital version of the book published in 2023.
Eliseo Ferrer. Elements for a materialist theory of the construction of the sacred.
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More Information (Spanish):
https://eliseoferrer.com/resenyas/
https://eliseoferreratstarpublishers.hcommons.org/
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Review by: Patricia Aláez © Messidor Comunicación.
May 16, 2025