이슬람의 가상공간 인터넷과 e-무슬림의 정체성에 관한 연구

A Study on Islamic Cyberspace and the Identity of e-Muslim

Nowadays, the spread of the internet which is the field of activity of e-Muslims became a main trend even in Islamic world, and the Islamic web-sites increased very sharply in comparison to other religious web-sites. The reason of this outburst of Islamic web-sites is not irrelevant to the reality of Islamic society. The Muslims in most of the Islamic society feel that they are living under oppressive political, social, and cultural environments and that their religion is recognized too negatively to the outside world. In this situation, young Muslims have entered into the cyberspace of internet which is characterized by anonymity, invisibility, interactivity, and disinhibition to express their feelings, ideas, and views which had been suppressed by political, social, cultural, and religious restrictions and constraints. But so called ‘e-Muslims’ who present their identities as Muslims on the internet could not be totally free from the mechanism of real society. And they present their linguistic, cultural, political, social, and religious identities in cyberspace directly or indirectly, sometimes in conformity with the traditional attitudes of the real society and sometimes in conflict with them.