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The Gulen Movement - Transformative Social Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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The Gulen Movement - Transformative Social Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Middle East Today
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This book presents findings from research into one of the world's
most influential Islamic movements, the Gulen 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 Gulen 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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