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Religion and Communication Spaces | 23www.jrfm.eu 2015, 1/1, 23–30 Roger Odin Religion and Communication Spaces A Semio-pragmatic Approach aBsTraCT Following the reflection initiated in his book The Spaces of Communication, roger Odin suggests a new distinction between physical communication spaces and mental com- munication spaces (spaces that we have inside us). The suggestion is exemplified by three film analyses dedicated to the relationships between religion and communica- tion. KeyWOrDs semio-pragmatics, communication, spaces of communication, religion, cinema, adver- tising, commercials BiOGraPhy roger Odin is professor emeritus of Communication at Paris 3 University (sorbonne Nouvelle), where he was the head of the film and audiovisual institute from 1983 until 2003. Theorist of the semio-pragmatic approach (Cinéma et production de sens, 1990; De la fiction, 2000; Les espaces de communication, 2011), he directed a research group examining film documentaries (L’âge d’or du cinéma documentaire. Europe années 50, 1997) and initiated research into home movies and amateur films (Le film de famille, 1995; Le cinéma en amateur, 1999). Today, he is interested in the mobile phone (Il cin- ema nell’epoca del videofonino, 2011; Téléphone mobile et création, in collaboration with L. Allard et L. Creton, 2014). COMMUNiCaTiON sPaCes The notion of communication space, in the form i sought to develop in my previ- ous book,1 is intended to avoid the aporia related to the notion of context. I define a communication space as a construct designed to select, in a given context, a bundle of constraints that regulate construction of the actants, relations between actants, mode(s) of production of the meanings and affective elements employed, on the axis 1 Odin 2011.