A comparative and ethnographic study of Arabic language use

乔治华盛顿大学的Joel Kuipers建议探索使用阿拉伯语作为一种神圣的语言和新兴形式的宗教认同之间的关系。该项目将测试关于性别、教育、城市化和快速的媒介化如何影响伊斯兰教参与的关键假设。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，在个人名字、问候、古兰经经文和其他日常生活中的虔诚表达中都有体现。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上，也反映在表达信仰的新方式上，而这些方式很少被学者们研究。通过关注印度尼西亚最大的民族——爪哇人，该研究特别研究了阿拉伯语在日常生活中虔诚身份的新兴调整中的作用。利用语言人类学的先进方法，这项拟议的研究将收集和检查日常互动、教室、祈祷室、流行电影、广播谈话节目和各种其他环境的详细记录，在这些环境中，虔诚的主体性被展示和评估。研究结果不仅将展示研究宗教主体性的严谨的新语言学方法，而且还将为世界第四大国家的虔诚模式提供实质性的和比较的见解。该项目通过与Gadja Mada大学的一个印度尼西亚研究小组的合作，为科学家之间的国际合作做出了重大贡献。该项目还支持人类学本科生和研究生的培训。

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.