The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis

'The location of religion' a new approach to the study of religion in the West based on a apatial analysis of religious-secular relations. Contemporary spatial therory, partivularly the work of Henri Lefebvre, is used to religion within social, cultural and physical space. The book besing by develpoing a spatial methodology to analyes secular and post-secular religious relations. The spatial approach is then applied to a particular case, that of the left hand. Our understanding of this sinister but intimate 'other' draws on awide range of ideas, from different religious traditions to alternative paths to salvation and self-realisation, to long-held notions of what constitutes the impure, demonic, inauspicious and sacred. The book concludes by examining the possible applications of the spatial approach th the study of religion.