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A Shadow Falls - In the Heart of Java (Paperback, Main)
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A Shadow Falls - In the Heart of Java (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 3 260
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Andrew Beatty gives us what no Western writer has been able to do:
an intimate picture of how Islamic fundamentalism can displace
older and more easygoing forms of belief. He has also written an
unforgettably human story set in a beautiful place. Andrew Beatty
lived with his family for two and a half years in a village in East
Java. When he arrived, he was entranced by a strange and sensual
way of life, an unusual tolerance of diversity. Mysticism, Islamic
piety and animism coexisted peacefully; the ancient traditions of
the shadow play, of spirit beliefs and were-tigers seemed set to
endure. Java appeared a model for our strife-ridden world, a recipe
for multiculturalism. But a harsh and puritanical Islamism, fed by
modern uncertainties, was driving young women to wear the veil and
young men to renounce the old rituals. The mosque loudspeakers grew
strident, cultural boundaries sharpened. As a wave of
witch-killings shook the countryside, Beatty and his family began
to feel like vulnerable outsiders. Set among Java's rice fields and
volcanoes, this is the story of how one of the biggest issues of
our time plays out in ordinary lives.
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