Indian Dance Studios as Religious Spaces in Barcelona

Responding to the Religion in Europe Unit’s Roundtable question: “What is religion in Europe”?, I suggest that religion in Europe is marked by how religious people navigate the "local" and the "transnational." These claims arise from my research on how South Asian owned "Indian dance" studios in Barcelona function as spaces for community building and the observance of religious holidays for Hindus. I will discuss the methodological challenges of a project that considers commercial sites as religious sites, which are also linked to transnational resources in the form of Indian government funding.