Framing the Sacred in the City. An Introduction, Liliana Gómez & Walter van Herck \ Part I: The Sacred and the City: Theoretical Approaches \ 1.Sacred Horror Vacui. A Philosophical Reflection, Walter Van Herck\ 2.The Urbanization of Society. Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in the Modern Metropolis, Liliana Gómez\ 3.The Lingering Smell of Incense. Exploring Post-secular Public Space, Pieter Dronkers\ Part II: Religion, Built Environments and Urban Societies \ 4.Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual and Memory in Lived Urban Space, Sigurd Bergmann\ 5.Kinhin in a Mega-City – Implicit meanings of the ‘Walking-in-the-Park’-Movement in São Paulo, Frank Usarski \ 6. Life Stance and Religious Identity in an Urbanised World. The Meaning of Life as a Modern Predicament, Rik Pinxten & Lisa Dikomitis \ Part III: Sacred Symbols, Sacred Spaces \ 7.Sacred Symbols of the City: Babel, Barbara and Their Towers, Anne-Marie Korte \ 8.Communicating the Elemental Cosmos: The Hereford Mappa Mundi, Sacred Space and the City, Renée Köhler-Ryan \ 9.Relocating and Negotiating the Sacred: The Reception of a Chapel in a Shopping Mall, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Peter Nynäs \ Part IV: Politics of the Sacred in Contemporary Urban Spaces\ 10.Kinshasa and its (Un)Certainties: The Polis and the Sacred, Filip De Boeck \ 11. The Politics of a Sacred Place: Revisiting an Israeli Development Town, Haim Jacobi \ 12.The Sacred in the City: Havana. Alejo Carpentier or ‘Fieldwork’ in the Urban, Liliana Gómez \13. Remaking Sacred Spaces after Socialism in Ukraine, Catherine Wanner \ Index