The Gülen Movement : transformative social change / Salih Cıngıllıoğlu.
2017
HM881
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Title
The Gülen Movement : transformative social change / Salih Cıngıllıoğlu.
Author
Cıngıllıoğlu, Salih, author.
ISBN
9783319505053 (electronic book)
331950505X (electronic book)
9783319505046
331950505X (electronic book)
9783319505046
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017].
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-50505-3 doi
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HM881
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48409561
Summary
This book presents findings from research into one of the world's most influential Islamic movements, the Gülen Movement, from the perspective of social transformation through adult education. At the core of research questions lies how the movement enrolls volunteers from all walks of life and transforms them to adopt its aims at the expense of their individual ideals. The book reveals the socio-psychological mechanisms that make such transformation possible by looking at how followers integrate weekly lectures and discussions on the theory and practice of Islam into their personal and social lives. The Gülen Movement offers a moderate interpretation of Islam and stresses the vitality of establishing communication with the members of all faiths. This book provides a window into how and why religion may roll into extremism by presenting findings from an opposite perspective: the participants in the research all define themselves as truly pious but do not even imply an act of violence in tens of hours of interviews. In short, the book weaves the strands of "Islamic," "movement," and "adult education" into a unified whole and limns the snapshot of a social movement, offering a comprehensive discussion of the role of adult education within the movement, as well as its transformative potential and its wider social and political implications.
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Middle East today.
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Print version: 9783319505046
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Research and the Researcher
3. Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Transformative Adult Education
4. The Participants of the Gülen Movement: First Encounters, Reasons, Significance, and Self-Positioning
5. Sohbets as Adult Education
6. Transformative Aspects of Sohbets
7. Discussion and Reflections.
2. The Research and the Researcher
3. Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Transformative Adult Education
4. The Participants of the Gülen Movement: First Encounters, Reasons, Significance, and Self-Positioning
5. Sohbets as Adult Education
6. Transformative Aspects of Sohbets
7. Discussion and Reflections.