In South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America, the editors set out to fill a sizable lacuna in the academic research on South Asians, Christians, and religious diversity in Europe and North America. Most South Asian-specific research on religious diversity in the West focuses on Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus, perhaps because these communities are far larger and more conspicuous. Nonetheless, the editors and authors argue compellingly that the Christian subcommunities within the larger South Asian diasporic populations in the West are intrinsically interesting and provide excellent windows onto the majority (and at least nominally Christian) populations, the Indian “home” populations, and some of the complex adaptive processes at work in other larger groups. In the first chapter, Nesbitt outlines both the impressive heterogeneity of South Asian Christian communities in the UK and the ways in which they tend to downplay denominational distinctiveness in favour of (Indian) regional identity markers. In chapter two, Sebastia explores the far more ethnically distinctive Pondicherian community in France, where they go to great lengths to Indianize Catholic practices. In chapter three, Goel uses a birthday party for a Keralan male community leader to illustrate broader patterns common among this community of newcomers to Germany. In chapter four, Luchesi uses a particular Marian pilgrimage popular among Tamil immigrants to Germany to demonstrate ways the ritual helps these South Asians create urban Tamil space. The experience of Tamil Catholics in Switzerland is featured in chapter five, where Luthi emphasises the ways in which the immigration experience has softened the division between Christians and Hindus (with many Christians abiding by Hindu notions of purity, for example). In chapter six, Jacobsen discusses the ways in which the Roman Catholic Church has responded to the Tamils of Norway by, for example, hiring Tamil priests and adapting the liturgy. In the seventh chapter, Sant’ana discusses the journeys by which Int. Migration & Integration (2013) 14:195–196 DOI 10.1007/s12134-011-0208-2