ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the preceding chapters discussed in this book. The book demonstrates how much it is possible to learn about one place through a spatial investigation of its various representations. It refers to that very boundary between the 'religious' and the 'secular', and the many other boundaries within the field that separate out non-negotiable values, principles, places, and activities. The book offers readers a spatial methodology, a theoretical framework for considering religious/secular relations in Western modernity, and a case study of the left hand in which religion in its many guises is seen to be located variously in a range of contemporary representations. Time - so crucial for Lefebvre's ideas about the production of space - has been considered here in relation to the spatial stratification and historical extension of the hands, but, with more direct attention, it might have revealed other important issues.
