The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain (eBook)

Beyond the Secular City

Antonio Cordoba, Daniel García-Donoso (Herausgeber)

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2016
211 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137600202 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Antonio Cordoba is Assistant Professor at Manhattan College, USA. His research focuses on the interaction between modernity, wonder, and the sacred in Latin American culture.

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.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTIONAntonio Cordoba and Daniel García-DonosoCHAPTER 1. The Sacred in Madrid’s Soundscape: Towards an Aural Hygiene, 1856-1907Samuel LlanoCHAPTER 2. Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic NarrativesWan Sonya TangCHAPTER 3. The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada SeriesSara Muñoz-MurianaCHAPTER 4. Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-GardeAlberto MedinaCHAPTER 5. The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in Nada and La plaça del DiamantSarah ThomasCHAPTER 6. Living Off the Exception: Biopolitical Modernity and Sacratio in Francoist SpainWilliam ViestenzCHAPTER 7. Urban Avatars of “El Maligno”: Sacredness in Álex de la Iglesia’s El día de la bestia and Manuel Martín Cuenca’s CaníbalAntonio CordobaCHAPTER 8. Searching the Soul of the City in Rafael Chirbes’s CrematorioDaniel García-DonosoCHAPTER 9. A New Heaven for a New Earth: Religion in the Contemporary Spanish NovelNathan RichardsonCHAPTER 10. Media Landscapes of a Well-Dressed Multitude: The City and the Individual in Velvet and El tiempo entre costurasEsteve Sanz and Tatiana AlekseevaAFTERWORD. The Temple and the City: Contaminations of the Sacred in Modernista BarcelonaJoan Ramon Resinaiv>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Urban Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Urban Studies
• Zusatzinfo: XXVII, 211 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: area • Barcelona • children • Cultural Anthropology • Father • Madrid • Nation • Pain • postsecularism • Religious Studies • Secularism • Social Anthropology • Social Science • Sociology • Spanish culture • Spanish film • Spanish Literature • urban studies
• ISBN-13: 9781137600202 / 9781137600202