ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to ritual space, and considers the ways in which ritual space is structured through architecture, and the interior disposition of ritual spaces. Following Lefebvre, the argument presented here is that space both reflects and constitutes social relationships of authority and power. In the context of Jōdo Shinshū, this is also intertwined with discourses of globalisation and localisation. In examining the importance of the ways in which bodies move through space during rituals, both constituting, and sometimes challenging divisions of ritual space, the chapter returns to the theme of embodiment introduced in Chapter 4.
