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This forum asks, essentially," How shall we think about and talk about studying r and place?"'This might seem to be a concrete and straightforward topic-one might th Muslims and Mecca, or Mormons and Utah, or Rastas and Ethiopia. One might think, ab symbolically, of Moses and Mt. Sinai, the Cuban-Yoruba deity Yemaja and the ocean, the of Guadalupe and the nation of Mexico. The easy way to think of these terms is to say that" have" territories, and make" sacred" spaces. The association of place with religion ten positive; there are agreed-upon sacred places, which are by definition morally good to r insiders and often regarded so by respectful outsiders. Such simple ideas must be examined critically, obviously, since the scholar more p must ask," What insight can be derived from relating theory about religion to theory abou or better yet," from theorizing religion and place together?" There is much that needs c …