ABSTRACT
This chapter summaries the development of spatial approach for locating religion within contemporary places. It follows a short reiteration of the object of the research, the methodological approach to be employed and its analytical terms. It describes the theoretical literature on space, place and location in order to identifies and develop appropriate terms for a spatial analysis. In the Production of Space, Lefebvre presented three dialectically connected, mutually occurring aspects of social space in the form of a conceptual triad. He organized the experience of space into spatial practice, representations of space, and spaces of representation in order to show how he thought spaces were perceived, conceived, and lived. This conceptualisation, with which Lefebvre sought to hold the openness or dynamic activity of space whilst closing it for the purpose of ordering and structuring its meaning, has value in distinguishing the aspects of space produced and transformed by religious individuals and groups.
