The Location of Religion

This book offers a new approach to the study of religion in the West based on a spatial analysis of religious-secular relations. It locates religion within the social, cultural, and physical spaces of the present using a method informed by contemporary spatial theory, particularly the work of Henri Lefebvre.

Auteur

Kim Knott is Professor of Religion and Secular Studies at Lancaster University.

Contenu

Introduction; Part 1: The development of a spatial approach to the study of religion; 1. Opening up space for the study of religion; 2. Religion and Lefebvre's spatial triad; 3. Opening up religion for a spatial analysis; 4. Religion and space: The scholarly legacy; 5. The spatial approach summarised; Part 2: Applying a spatial approach: the case of the left hand; 6. The physical, social, and mental space of the right left hand; 7. The location of religion within some contemporary left hands; 8. Spatial properties, distant left hands, and the field of the religious and the secular; 9. Beyond the field? The left, transformation, and the sacred; Conclusion