The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain Beyond the Secular City 1st Edition by Antonio Cordoba, Daniel García Donoso 1137600209 9781137600202

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ISBN 10: 1137600209

ISBN 13: 9781137600202

Author: Antonio Cordoba, Daniel García-Donoso

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.

Table of contents:

1. The Sacred in Madrid’s Soundscape: Toward an Aural Hygiene, 1856–1907

2. Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives

3. The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada Series

4. Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-Garde

5. The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in Nada and La plaça del Diamant

6. Living Off the Exception: Biopolitical Modernity and Sacratio in Francoist Spain

7. Urban Avatars of “El Maligno”: Sacredness in Álex de la Iglesia’s El día de la bestia and Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Caníbal

8. Searching the Soul of the City in Rafael Chirbes’s Crematorio

9. A New Heaven for a New Earth: Religion in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

10. Media Landscapes of a Well-Dressed Multitude: The City and the Individual in Velvet and El tiempo entre costuras

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