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The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City
Daniel Garcia-Donoso (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Garcia-Donoso, Daniel; Cordoba, Antonio. Series: Hispanic Urban Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Hispanic Urban Studies
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137600714
SKU
V9781137600714
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About Daniel Garcia-Donoso (Ed.)
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 Garcia-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.
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