A Shadow Falls - In the Heart of Java

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Beatty is an internationally-respected anthropologist, who has spent five years in Indonesia. Before he became an anthropologist he spent another three years travelling in Asia. He teaches at Brunel University and lives near Oxford with his wife, who is from Mexico, and their two children. Klappentext 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. In A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java, Andrew Beatty writes - from deep inside the largest Muslim country in the world - the unforgettable true story of how Islamic fundamentalism has come to change an entire way of life. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Beatty, Beatty Andrew
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780571235865
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23586-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Fundamentalism, Travel writing, Religious Fundamentalism