The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain Beyond the Secular City
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 t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Hispanic Urban Studies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION; Antonio Cordoba and Daniel García-Donoso
- CHAPTER 1. The Sacred in Madrid’s Soundscape: Towards an Aural Hygiene, 1856-1907; Samuel Llano
- CHAPTER 2. Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives; Wan Sonya Tang
- CHAPTER 3. The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada Series; Sara Muñoz-Muriana
- CHAPTER 4. Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-Garde; Alberto Medina
- CHAPTER 5. The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in Nada and La plaça del Diamant; Sarah Thomas
- CHAPTER 6. Living Off the Exception: Biopolitical Modernity and Sacratio in Francoist Spain; William Viestenz
- CHAPTER 7. Urban Avatars of “El Maligno”: Sacredness in Álex de la Iglesia’s El día de la bestia and Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Caníbal; Antonio Cordoba
- CHAPTER 8. Searching the Soul of the City in Rafael Chirbes’s Crematorio; Daniel García-Donoso
- CHAPTER 9. A New Heaven for a New Earth: Religion in the Contemporary Spanish Novel; Nathan Richardson
- CHAPTER 10. Media Landscapes of a Well-Dressed Multitude: The City and the Individual in Velvet and El tiempo entre costuras; Esteve Sanz and Tatiana Alekseeva
- AFTERWORD. The Temple and the City: Contaminations of the Sacred in Modernista Barcelona; Joan Ramon Resina