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This book seeks to develop an appropriate discourse for studying
the Gulen Movement and phenomena like it. The established discourse
concerns itself with social movements as protest, as challenge to
the System, as contentious actors looking to alter or even overturn
existing structures and/or policies in some field, usually
political or economic. Approaching the matter from social movement
theory and taking an insider's perspective, the author argues that
the Gulen Movement is, as it has always been, non-contentious' it
is not a marginalized actor working on the System from the outside.
On the contrary, it has always worked within the System - within
the boundaries of the laws and public norms that obtain in the
different local and national settings where it has set up
institutions.
This book is about a contemporary social phenomenon which is known
by a number of different names: "the Volunteers' Movement", "the
Service Movement" or just "Hizmet". Hizmet is also often referred
to as the Gulen Movement by researchers and journalists, using the
name of the Islamic scholar who inspired the Movement, Fethullah
Gulen. The Movement originated in 1970s' Turkey as a faith-inspired
initiative to improve educational opportunities for a local
community; since then, it has grown into a transnational
educational, intercultural and interfaith movement. It is estimated
that participants number in several millions. Hizmet has securely
established respected institutions (of different kinds, but mostly
schools) on every continent revealing the capacity of an
Islam-inspired movement to mobilise huge numbers of religiously
minded and observant individuals not only to accept but to cherish
a secular, pluralist, democratic social and political order. Hizmet
has attracted a great deal of academic attention in recent years.
This book is intended to summarise and represent the conclusions of
much of that academic work in a manner more easily accessible to
the lay person or non-specialist.
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