Bawean http://thingsasian.com/taxonomy/term/129/all?sort_by=totalcount en Indonesia's Bawean Island: The Magic of Faith http://thingsasian.com/story/indonesias-bawean-island-magic-faith <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Throughout the Malay world, there survives a belief in the occult, the practice of which is the peaceful syncretism of local animism and the less orthodox Islam brought by Arab traders seven hundred...</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 01 Sep 1999 07:00:00 +0000 Anonymous 504 at http://thingsasian.com