Jennifer B. Saunders

Imagining Religious Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190941246
• Artikelnr.: 57084609

Autorenporträt

Jennifer B. Saunders is an independent scholar living in Stamford, CT. She has taught in a number of colleges and universities in the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast. Her research interests include the transmission of Hindu devotional songs among middle class women in India and beyond specifically and religion and migration generally. She has published articles on transnational Hinduism in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Religion Compass and Nova Religio. She is co-founder of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and Migration Group and a co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Religion and Global Migration series.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* A Note on Transliteration and Translation
* List of Figures
* Introduction: Satya's Story: Transnational Social Networks, Narrative
Performances, and Religion
* Chapter 1: On the Importance of Mandalis: Transnational Communities,
Social Imaginaries, and Narrative Performance
* Chapter 2: New Opportunities, The Brain Drain, and the Guptas
* Chapter 3: Growing Up Indian, Becoming Immigrants: Interpreting
Immigration Narratives
* Chapter 4: "One's own home is better than all other places": Creating
Family and Home as Transmigrants
* Chapter 5: Neither Black nor White: Moving to the Atlanta of the New
South
* Chapter 6: Sundarkand: Performing Community and Religion
* Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Hinduism
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index