| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Satya's story: transnational social networks, narrative performances, and religion -- On the importance of Maalis: transnational communities, social imaginaries, and narrative performance -- New opportunities, the brain drain, and the Guptas -- Growing up Indian, becoming immigrants: interpreting immigration narratives -- One's own home is better than all other places: creating family and home as transmigrants -- Neither black nor white: moving to the Atlanta of the new south -- Sundarka: performing community and religion -- Toward a transnational Hinduism |
| Summary |
Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019) |
| Subject |
Hindu diaspora.
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Hindus -- Migrations.
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Religious communities.
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Hindus -- Religious life
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Hindu diaspora.
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Hindus -- Migrations.
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Religious communities.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019980361 |
| ISBN |
9780190941253 |
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0190941251 |
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9780190941239 |
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0190941235 |
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