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Imagined communities refer to groups of people, not immediately tangible and accessible, with whom we connect through the power of the imagination. In our daily lives we interact with many communities whose existence can be felt concretely and directly. These include our neighborhood communities, our workplaces, our educational institutions, and our religious groups. However, these are not the only communities with which we are affiliated. As Etienne Wenger suggests, direct involvement with community practices and investment in tangible and concrete relationships—what he calls engagement—is not the only way in which we belong to a community. For Wenger, imagination—“a process of expanding oneself by transcending our time and space and creating new images of the world and ourselves” (p. 176)—is another important source of community.