TY - GEN N2 - Based on ethnographic research with a transnational Hindu family and its social networks, this text examines the ways that middle-class Hindu communities are engaged actively in creating and maintaining their communities. Imagination as a social practice has been a crucial component of defining a transnational life in the moments between actual contact across borders, and the narratives community members tell are key components of communicating these social imaginaries. AB - Based on ethnographic research with a transnational Hindu family and its social networks, this text examines the ways that middle-class Hindu communities are engaged actively in creating and maintaining their communities. Imagination as a social practice has been a crucial component of defining a transnational life in the moments between actual contact across borders, and the narratives community members tell are key components of communicating these social imaginaries. T1 - Imagining religious communities :transnational Hindus and their narrative performances / AU - Saunders, Jennifer B. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BL1237.32 N1 - Also issued in print: 2019. ID - 892447 KW - Hindu diaspora. KW - Hindus KW - Religious communities. KW - Hindus KW - Hindus SN - 9780190941253 TI - Imagining religious communities :transnational Hindus and their narrative performances / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941222.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941222.001.0001 ER -