Islam on the Internet: The Jinn and the Objectification of Islam

Celia E. Rothenberg
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Abstract: This paper is an ontological investigation of discourses about the jinn, or spirits, on an Internet information portal site and a chat room. These Web discourses relate to what some anthropologists have termed the Great and Little Traditions of Islam, but with greater disparity than could ever be identified in “real world,” Muslim-majority settings. Great and Little Web jinn discourses may best be understood as existing in dialectical tension with the ongoing process of the “objectification” of Islam in diaspora Islamic communities. Considered against ethnographic research on the jinn specifically and Islam more broadly, jinn stories on the Internet both reflect and may shape Islamic religious practice today.
互联网上的伊斯兰教:精灵与伊斯兰教的物化
摘要:本文对互联网信息门户网站和聊天室中有关精灵的话语进行了本体论调查。这些网络话语与一些人类学家所称的伊斯兰教的大传统和小传统有关,但与“现实世界”中穆斯林占多数的环境相比,两者之间的差异更大。大网络精灵和小网络精灵的话语最好被理解为存在于与散居的伊斯兰社区中正在进行的伊斯兰“客观化”过程中的辩证张力中。与针对精灵的民族志研究和更广泛的伊斯兰教的研究相比,互联网上的精灵故事既反映了,也可能塑造了今天的伊斯兰宗教习俗。
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