ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up concepts of pilgrimage, sacred/secular threshold, and place as it explores the relationship between registration and identity. The chapter engages with religious geography to argue that the sacred is located not in the distant ‘beyond’ but in the connection that is formed between people and place. The discussion considers the tension between mundane and meaningful activities in the construction of legal identities, suggesting that this tension is at the core of contemporary conflict over law and identity.
