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 relateThis 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 c
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