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.

• AcknowledgementsA Note on Transliteration and TranslationList of Figures Introduction: Satya's Story: Transnational Social Networks, Narrative Performances, and ReligionChapter 1: On the Importance of Mandalis: Transnational Communities, Social Imaginaries, and Narrative PerformanceChapter 2: New Opportunities, The Brain Drain, and the GuptasChapter 3: Growing Up Indian, Becoming Immigrants: Interpreting Immigration NarrativesChapter 4: "One's own home is better than all other places": Creating Family and Home as TransmigrantsChapter 5: Neither Black nor White: Moving to the Atlanta of the New SouthChapter 6: Sundarkand: Performing Community and ReligionConclusion: Toward a Transnational Hinduism NotesBibliographyIndex

A superlative example of Geertzian thick description, Saunders's project represents a noteworthy shift in the paradigms used to interpret transnational religious communities. It is particularly recommended to those interested in the evolution of modern religion in both the USA and in India.