The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain

Beyond the Secular City

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology
Cover of the book The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain by , Palgrave Macmillan US
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9781137600202
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: November 17, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781137600202
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: November 17, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Palgrave Macmillan US

Cover of the book Making Peace by
Cover of the book Global Jane Austen by
Cover of the book Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean by
Cover of the book Creative Cross-Disciplinary Entrepreneurship by
Cover of the book Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity by
Cover of the book Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean by
Cover of the book The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600 by
Cover of the book Liberalism and Human Suffering by
Cover of the book Reflections on Academic Lives by
Cover of the book State Terrorism and Post-transitional Justice in Argentina: An Analysis of Mega Cause I Trial by
Cover of the book Toward an American Conservatism by
Cover of the book The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers by
Cover of the book Inequality in School Discipline by
Cover of the book Troubling the Teaching and Learning of Gender and Sexuality Diversity in South African Education by
Cover of the book Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy