Overview
- Launches a scholarly conversation on the relationship between urban spaces, modernity, and the sacred
- Connects modern cities to a discussion of the concept of the sacred that is not necessarily related to any specific religion or god
- Examines literature, film and television, architecture, and the conflicting elements of the urban soundscape in modern Spain
- Problematizes clear-cut distinctions to show how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap fundamentally in contemporary Spain
Part of the book series: Hispanic Urban Studies (HUS)
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“Religious studies are a critical but rarely explored area in Spanish cultural studies. At a time when secularity is in crisis, and religious ideas crop up in unexpected places, this volume is a timely, much-needed contribution that should pave the way for further explorations of the interplay between the secular and the religious in contemporary Spanish culture.” (Angel Loureiro, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University, USA)
“The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain offers, through innovative research and critical thinking, an in-depth analysis of the persistence of the sacred in a secular society. Engaging in excellent dialogue with some of the most important thinkers and cultural historians of religion, urban studies, political theory, and modernity, the essays in this collection open up new areas of cultural and theoretical inquiry about Spanish society and culture. This is a major contribution.” (Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Professorof Spanish and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA)
“This collection on representations of cities in Spain is new and engaging. Each essay interrogates the conventional wisdom of ‘the sacred’ as exclusive to pre-modern urban space . . . these essays have encouraged me to re-think the very notion of modernity and pre-modernity.” (Michael Ugarte, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel García-Donoso is Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America, USA. His work explores the relationship between religion and culture in modern and contemporary Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Secular City
Editors: Antonio Cordoba, Daniel García-Donoso
Series Title: Hispanic Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60020-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60071-4Published: 01 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95613-5Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60020-2Published: 17 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 211
Topics: Sociology, general, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, European Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Religion