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

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 id...

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Главный автор: Rothenberg, Celia 1970- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: University of Saskatchewan [2011]
В: Journal of religion and popular culture
Год: 2011, Том: 23, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 358-371
Другие ключевые слова:B Интернет (мотив)
B Ислам (мотив)
B Jinn
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1703-289X
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.23.3.358