1. Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Introduction à l’oeuvre de Marcel Mauss,” in Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie (Paris: P. U. F., 1950): xlix; cited in Jonathan Z. Smith, To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987): 107. See also Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” in Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978): 289–91.
2. Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, trans. Rosemary Sheed (New York: Harper and Row, 1958): 367–85; Eliade, Sacred and Profane, trans. Willard R. Trask (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1961): 20–65; Jonathan Z. Smith, “The Wobbling Pivot,” in Map is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978): 88–103; and Smith, To Take Place, passim. On the subject of spatial poetics and politics, see Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (London: Methuen, 1986).
3. Gerardus van der Leeuw, Religion in Essence and Manifestation, trans. J. E. Turner, Foreword by Ninian Smart (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986; orig. German ed. 1933; orig. English trans. 1938). References to Religion in Essence and Manifestation, cited by page number from the 1986 edition, will appear in the body of the text. The best overview of Van der Leeuw’s life and work remains Jacques Waardenburg, “Gerardus van der Leeuw as a Theologian and Phenomenologist,” in Reflections on the Study of Religion (The Hague: Mouton, 1978): 187–247.
4. On the topic of the visible and the audible, see David Chidester, Word and Light: Seeing, Hearing, and Religious Discourse (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992).
5. David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989): 209.