ABSTRACT

It is just a spatial process that can reveal the location of religion in a place, object, event or organization, location being a spatial concept referring to the position of one element vis-à-vis other elements, points or positions. In Europe at least, exponents of the secular have frequently said that religion is a thing of the past, that secularization has dislodged religion from the heart of social, political and legal institutions and from public life as a whole. Left and right continue to be used symbolically in the struggle for moral supremacy. This chapter aims to consider what people might learn about the location of religion, in particular relations between the religious and the secular within the West, from an analysis of the left hand. For this purpose a spatial methodology of selected contemporary cyber-texts was employed in order to open the matter up to scrutiny.