ISBN:
9781784535889
,
1784535885
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 227 Seiten
DDC:
320.55709561
Keywords:
Gülen, Fethullah
;
Gülen Hizmet Movement
;
Islam and state
;
Islam and social problems
;
Islam and science History
;
Politischer Islam
;
Innenpolitik
;
Einflussnahme
;
Türkei
;
Gülen, Fethullah 1938-
;
Anhängerschaft
;
Gülen-Bewegung
;
Türkei
;
Islam
;
Politik
Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Note on Turkish spelling and pronunciation -- Abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 Background : Gülen: leader and community -- A Notion spiritual framework for modernity. Part 2 Science and education : The Gülen movement's science-focused schools -- Islamic creationism in Gülenist thought -- Higher education, networking and careers in science. Part 3 The wider context : Inter cultural dialogue -- Globalisation of the movement, and Gülen in the USA -- Political influence and the AKP. Afterword. Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey is the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. Its central tenet, advanced by its founder, the charismatic Sunni preacher Fethullah Gulen (b. 1941), is that Muslims should engage positively with modernity. A prime means of advancing this philosophy has been education: at hundreds of Gulen-run schools and universities, not only in Turkey but also worldwide, instructors aim to cultivate the next generation of Muslim bankers, biologists, software engineers and politicians. But how does the Gulen movement resolve the sometimes conflicting positions of Sunni Islam and contemporary science for example, on evolutionary theory? Drawing on sustained ethnographic research conducted among Gulen communities in Turkey, Caroline Tee analyses their complex attitudes towards secular modernity. She focuses on education, science research and industry to explore how pious Muslim practitioners engage in science at high levels, arguing that the Gulen movement's success in this critical area of modernity has facilitated its rise to prominence in recent decades. Considered against the backdrop of Turkish politics, and particularly the acrimonious power-struggle between the Gulen movement and its erstwhile ally, Turkey's ruling AK Party, Gulenist engagement with modern science is revealed as a key source of its influence and success
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 214-223
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