Sociocultural Influences on Linguistic Geography: Religion and Language in Southeast Asia

Siebenhütter, Stefanie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_84-1

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“…Interestingly, in Indonesia, which is predominantly Muslim, there are producers, who are willing to call themselves muftis or Muslim scholars and call their papers a fatwa with no hesitation (Wahid 2020). This shows the way in which the social and cultural context influences discourse and their participants, and how the social hierarchy and perception of power in the same religion may vary across cultures (Siebenhütter 2019).…”

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British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs—A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority

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This paper discusses the symbolic capital found within Islamic documents that were circulated in the UK during the COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically, the work explores “fatwas” and “other” similar documents as well as “guidance” documents (referred to as FOGs) that were circulated in March–April 2020 on the internet and social media platforms for British Muslim consumption. We confine our materials to FOGs produced only in English. Our study takes its cue from the notion that the existence of a variety of documents created a sense of foggy ambiguity for British Muslims in matters of religious practise. From a linguistic angle, the study seeks to identify (a) the underlying reasons behind the titling of the documents; and (b) the construction of discourses in the documents. Our corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CA-CDA) found noticeable patterns that hold symbolic capital in the fatwa register. We also found that producers of “other” documents imitate the fatwa register in an attempt to strengthen their documents’ symbolic capital. Accordingly, fatwas act as the most authoritative documents in religious matters and are written by senior religious representatives of the Muslim community, whereas guidance documents were found to be most authoritative in health matters. The findings raise questions regarding the manner in which religious instruction may be disseminated in emergency situations. Based on this study, a call for the standardisation and unification of these diverse and sometimes contradicting religious publications may be worth considering.

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British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs—A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority

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“…For example, modest dress for women as part of religious observance [including niqab (a face veil and head covering) or hijab (head covering) in Islam] may reduce or compensate for concerns about appearance, potentially due to reduced perceived objectification of others ( Swami et al, 2014 ; Wilhelm et al, 2018 ). Given the important influence of religion in daily life and culture within the SSEA region ( Allerton, 2009 ; Siebenhütter, 2019 ), it is critical to determine whether, and how, religiosity is associated with risk for disordered eating in this population.…”

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Internalization of Appearance Ideals and Not Religiosity Indirectly Impacts the Relationship Between Acculturation and Disordered Eating Risk in South and Southeast Asian Women Living in the United States

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ObjectiveStudies that examine disordered eating in samples of Asian individuals living in the United States frequently combine all individuals of Asian descent into a single group, which can obscure important differences between groups and their experiences of acculturation. The goal of the present study was to establish the relation of acculturation, internalization of appearance ideals, and religiosity as predicting body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in women of South and Southeast Asian (SSEA) descent.MethodWomen of SSEA descent (N = 112) aged 18–51 years (M = 23.10, SD = 6.4) completed a battery of questionnaires that inquire about these variables. A path analysis was conducted with acculturation serving as the independent (exogenous) variable, religiosity and internalization of the thin ideal as mediators, and body dissatisfaction and disordered eating as dependent (endogenous) variables.ResultsDirect paths from acculturation to both body dissatisfaction and disordered eating were not significant. Thin ideal internalization completely accounted for the path from acculturation to both endogenous variables; whereas, religiosity did not significantly account for any indirect effect.DiscussionFor SSEA women, internalization of appearance ideals is a potentially greater risk factor for disordered eating than acculturation or religiosity. As this was an atemporal mediation analysis, more work needs to be done exploring predictors of internalization in this population and how that may impact the development of disordered eating.

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“…For example, modest dress for women as part of religious observance [including niqab (a face veil and head covering) or hijab (head covering) in Islam] may reduce or compensate for concerns about appearance, potentially due to reduced perceived objectification of others (Swami et al, 2014;Wilhelm et al, 2018). Given the important influence of religion in daily life and culture within the SSEA region (Allerton, 2009;Siebenhütter, 2019), it is critical to determine whether, and how, religiosity is associated with risk for disordered eating in this population.…”

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Sociocultural Influences on Linguistic Geography: Religion and Language in Southeast Asia

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs—A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority

British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs—A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority

Internalization of Appearance Ideals and Not Religiosity Indirectly Impacts the Relationship Between Acculturation and Disordered Eating Risk in South and Southeast Asian Women Living in the United States

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