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Subject(s)

• Sociology, Urban—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Sociology, Urban—Spain [Browse]
• Sociology, Urban—Spain—Barcelona [Browse]
• Sociology, Urban—Spain—Madrid [Browse]
• Religion and sociology [Browse]
• Religion and civilization [Browse]
• Civilization, Modern [Browse]

Editor

• García-Donoso, Daniel [Browse]
• Cordoba, Antonio [Browse]

Series

Hispanic urban studies [More in this series]

Summary note

This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while the sacred has been linked to the natural, the rural, mythical past origins, and exemption from historical change. This collection problematizes such clear-cut distinctions as overlaps between the modern urban and the sacred in Spanish culture are explored throughout the volume. Placed in the periphery of Europe, Spain has had a complex relationship with the concept of modernity and commonly understood processes of modernization and secularization, thus offering a unique case-study of the interaction between the modern and the sacred in the city.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The sacred in Madrid's soundscape : toward an aural hygiene, 1856-1907 / Samuel Llano
• Sacred, sublime, and supernatural : religion and the Spanish capital in nineteenth-century fantastic narratives / Wan Sonya Tang
• The modern usurer consecrates the city : circulation and displacements in the Torquemada series / Sara Munoz-Muriana
• Spirituality and publicity in Barcelona, 1929 : performing citizenship between tradition and avant-garde / Alberto Medina
• The places of the subject : abjection and the transcendent city in Nada and La Placa del Diamant / Sarah Thomas
• Living off the exception : biopolitical modernity and sacratio in Francoist Spain / William Viestenz
• Urban avatars of "el maligno" : sacredness in Alex de la Iglesia's El dia de la bestia and Manuel Martin Cuenca's Canibal / Antonio Cordoba
• Searching the soul of the city in Rafael Chirbes's Crematorio / Daniel Garcia-Donoso
• A new heaven for a new earth : religion in the contemporary Spanish novel / Nathan Richardson
• Media landscapes of a well-dressed multitude : the city and the individual in velvet and el tiempo entre costuras / Tatiana Alekseeva.

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ISBN

• 9781137600714
• 1137600713

LCCN

2016957306

OCLC

962330750

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