The book presents 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.

Introduction Part I: 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 II: Applying a spatial approach: the case of the left hand 6. The physical, social, and mental space of the 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