Aaron French and Katharina Waldner, eds. 2024. Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. 238 pages. István Keul, ed. 2021. Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia. London/New York: Routledge. 222 pages.

How does the “ sacred ” manifest and persist within everyday material landscapes of modern cities? These two edited volumes approach that question from different archives and with different methodological temperaments. Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space (French/Waldner) surveys how sacred spaces are imagined, designed, and maintained in and against modernity, often through architectural projects, alternative religiosities