Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memorialise feelings of shame, oppression and marginalisation. She shows that these ‘traumas of absence’—the complex, entwined and emotional responses to absent spaces—can be articulated through mob violence and destruction,...