Antonio Cordoba & Daniel García-Donoso 
The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain [PDF ebook] 
Beyond the Secular City

INTRODUCTION; Antonio Cordoba and Daniel García-Donoso.- CHAPTER 1. The Sacred in Madrid’s Soundscape: Towards an Aural Hygiene, 1856-1907; Samuel Llano.- CHAPTER 2. Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives; Wan Sonya Tang.- CHAPTER 3. The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada Series; Sara Muñoz-Muriana.- CHAPTER 4. Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-Garde; Alberto Medina.- CHAPTER 5. The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in 
Nada and La plaça del Diamant; Sarah Thomas.- CHAPTER 6. Living Off the Exception: Biopolitical Modernity and 
Sacratio in Francoist Spain; William Viestenz.- CHAPTER 7. Urban Avatars of “El Maligno”: Sacredness in Álex de la Iglesia’s 
El día de la bestia and Manuel Martín Cuenca’s 
Caníbal; Antonio Cordoba.- CHAPTER 8. Searching the Soul of the City in Rafael Chirbes’s 
Crematorio; Daniel García-Donoso.- CHAPTER 9. A New Heaven for a New Earth: Religion in the Contemporary Spanish Novel; Nathan Richardson.- CHAPTER 10. Media Landscapes of a Well-Dressed Multitude: The City and the Individual in 
Velvet and 
El tiempo entre costuras; Esteve Sanz and Tatiana Alekseeva.- AFTERWORD. The Temple and the City: Contaminations of the Sacred in Modernista Barcelona; Joan Ramon Resina.

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.