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In response, an unprec- creeds meet to socialize and ask fluidity and diversity of Chinese edented wave of volunteers and civic Islamic jinns for help, writing out parenting. Such stereotypes also associations streamed in to help. The requests as if petitioning the state. fail to account for the challenges of Politics of Compassion examines how Anand Vivek Taneja’s Jinnealogy raising children in a rapidly mod- civically engaged citizens acted on provides a fresh vision of religion, ernizing world, full of globalizing the ground, how they understood identity, and sacrality in the ruin values. In Raising Global Families the meaning of their actions, and of Firoz Shah Kotla. An unusually Pei-Chia Lan examines how how the political climate shaped democratic religious space, it is ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan their actions and understandings. characterized by freewheeling and the United States negotiate Using extensive data from interviews, theological conversations, DIY cultural differences and class observations, and textual materials, rituals, and the sanctification of inequality. She draws on a uniquely Bin Xu shows that the large-scale animals. Taneja observes the visitors, comparative, multi-sited research civic engagement was not just a who come mainly from the Muslim model with four groups of parents: natural outpouring of compassion, and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, middle-class and working-class but also a complex social process, using their conversations and letters parents in Taiwan, and middle- both enabled and constrained by as an archive of voices so often class and working-class Chinese the authoritarian political context. silenced. In this enchanted space, he immigrants in the Boston area. Lan This is a powerful account of how encounters a vibrant form of popular demonstrates that class inequality the widespread death and suffering Islam that resists state repression permeates the fabric of family life, caused by the earthquake illuminates and challenges postcolonial visions even as