“…Despite some promising beginnings (Sopher, 1967;Meinig, 1965;Zelinsky, 1961), it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that religion has attracted some attention from a few geographers interested i n the politics of identity, space as a social product and the interplay of secular and sacred meanings in place (Campo, 1991;Emmett, 1995;Graham, 1998;Graham and Murray, 1997;Holloway, 2000Holloway, , 2003Holloway and Valins, 2002;Levine, 1986;Pacione, 1999;Park, 1994;Stump, 2000;Winter & Short, 1993;Yiftachel, 1992;Zelinsky, 2001). Further, the literature related to 'geographies of religion' is located across a wide range of disciplines, but has yet to be adequately contextualised within geographical debates (Slater, 2004).…”