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Relax, It’s Just Religion: Feby Indirani’s ‘Magical Islamism’

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Published last year, Feby Indirani's book "Bukan Perawan Maria" or "Not Virgin Mary" is filled with stories about Indonesian Muslims finding themselves caught in strange, surrealistic circumstances. A suicide bomber, anticipating a heaven full of angels, is stuck in the afterlife’s waiting room. A corpse, who had spent her lifetime learning Arabic so she could pass her mandatory interrogation in the grave with flying colors, gets a shock of her (after)life when she's questioned by an angel speaking in her mother tongue, Sundanese.


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