A comparative and ethnographic study of Arabic language use

乔治华盛顿大学的Joel Kuipers建议探索阿拉伯语作为一种神圣语言的使用与新兴宗教身份形式之间的关系。该项目将测试有关性别、教育、城市化和快速媒介化如何影响伊斯兰参与的关键假设。这项研究将在世界上最大的穆斯林国家印度尼西亚进行。在过去的30年里，古典阿拉伯语（fussha）在日常生活中的作用急剧扩大，这体现在日常生活中的人名、问候、古兰经经文和其他虔诚的表达中。与此同时，旧的虔诚模式正在发生变化，这不仅反映在新的政治联盟中，也反映在表达信仰的新方式中，这些方式很少被学者研究。通过关注印度尼西亚最大的民族-爪哇人-研究特别考察了阿拉伯语在日常生活中虔诚身份重新调整中的作用。借鉴语言人类学的先进方法，拟议中的研究将收集和检查日常互动，教室，祈祷室，流行电影，广播脱口秀节目，以及各种其他情况下，虔诚的主体性显示和评估的录音的详细记录。 结果不仅将展示研究宗教主体性的严格的新语言方法，而且还将为世界第四大国家的虔诚模式提供实质性和比较性的见解。 该项目通过与印度尼西亚Gadja Mada大学的研究小组建立联系，为科学家之间的国际合作做出了重大贡献。该项目还支持对本科生和研究生进行人类学培训。

Joel Kuipers of George Washington University proposes to explore the relationship between the usage of Arabic as a sacred speech register and emerging forms of religious identity. The project will test key hypotheses about how gender, education, urbanization, and rapid mediatization affect participation in Islam. The research will take place in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. The role of classical Arabic (fussha) in everyday life has dramatically expanded in the last 30 years, evidenced in personal names, greetings, Qur'anic verses and other pious expressions in everyday life. At the same time, old patterns of piety are changing, reflected not only in new political alignments, but new ways of expressing faith, ways that are seldom examined by scholars. By focusing on the largest ethnic group in Indonesia - the Javanese - the research examines specifically the role of the Arabic language in the emerging realignment of pious identities in everyday life. Drawing on advanced methods in linguistic anthropology, the proposed study will collect and examine detailed transcriptions of recordings of everyday interactions, classrooms, prayer houses, popular films, radio talk shows, and a variety of other contexts in which pious subjectivities are displayed and evaluated. The results will not only demonstrate rigorous new linguistic methodologies for investigating religious subjectivity, but also provide substantive and comparative insights into patterns of piety in the world's fourth largest country. The project makes strong contributions to international collaboration among scientists through its affiliation with an Indonesian research team at Gadja Mada University. The project also supports the training of undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology.